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The School Girls

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Washington, Dec. 21.—Wide cirecula-
tion is given here to q story publish-
ed in the Baltimore Sun to the effect
that President Roosevelt had severe-
ly rebuked a party of girls from a
young ladies’ seminary, and their
chaperon, fur riding ahead of him on |
the public road, The article which
appeared under a Washington date,
Was shown to Secretary Loch, but he
refused to pass it on to the presi-
dent.

Secretary Loeb, smiled when ho
read the article, but would make yo |

comment, beyond saying that the
president had enough quarrels on his

hands,

Miss i. L. Sisson, an inatructor io
Vorest Glen Seminary at Kensington,
Md., is’ quoted by the Sun as author-

ity for the article, The incident is}

sald to have occurred on ‘Thauhksgiv-
ing day, when Miss Sisson was chap-
eroning three young women one ol
whom is the daughter of a wealthy
Chicago man, on a ride through Rock
| Creek Vark, According to the state-
ment attributed to her the president

became angry when her party rode)!

past his gn a public highway, jostled
one of the young Women and struck
her ‘horse with his riding whip with
such force that the animal reared and
ite rider was only saved from a fall
by excellent horsemanship.

An offort was made tonight to got
from the officials of the academy the
names of the young women in the
party, but the information was refus-
ed on the ground that it might sub-
ject thom to undue pnotoricty. There
are several Chicago girls at the insti.
tution,

Miss Sisson is quoted by the Sun
as follows

“You know that you should not go
ahead of our party,”’ sald President
Roosevelt as he rode past myself and
three of the seminary girls in Rock
Creek Park near the Forest Glen en
trance on ‘Thanksgiving day. The pre
wident rode by flercely, not stopping,
and as he passed the foot of one of
tho girls was knocked from the atir-
rup and the president's riding crop
jell vigorously on the flank of the
horse she wae riding. Had sho not
iwen an excellent horsewoman, serious
injury to her tight have followed
Nhe president, who seemed in a great
rage, and bis party, rode on, not
looking back, 1 do not know whe
ther the blow he struck was inten
tional, We were unaccompanied Ly
male escorts,

“1 know (t' was President Roose
velt 1 would rather not give the

, of the young ladies who were

name

with me, for two of them are at
home for the holidays, and the other
is not here at present, but Tam por
fectly willing Ahat my name be used,

ior | do hot understand the presi
dent @ action None of the young
women intended an affront, and so
far as 1 know to te contrary, our
action did not constitute lese ma-
jeaty.

‘We had beon riding In thy parh
for scano time, and about noon wo
Wottiby along Ue regular road, not
the bridle path, uear Forest Glen
entrance, When we made qa turn in
the road we saw aBead of us a party
of foure-two ladies, q mon and thy
President, Behind them rode an at
tendant,

“We were riding spirited horses
and for some distance rode belsind
the President's party until we found
diiieulty In Keeping our mounted prac-
tically in qa walk, Then we gave the
horses the rein and passed those
ahead of us, We procecded at a
wood clip for q ttle dintance, slow
ing our horses down again, and then
we heard the pounding of hools be
riding
road is nov

hind. ‘The girlé and | were
two abreast and the
vary wide at that point

‘“Thefore wa were aware of it the

President, apparently very angry
and his party were beside us, making
four abreast in the roadway, which
lcrowded us not a little As he
brushed past his horse struck the
fool of the young woman beside me
knocking it from the stirrup, and at
the sama «time a blow from the

President's crop fell p the horse's
Hank,
| "The young woman's hors reared
‘and but for the coolness ont admir-
able horsemanship she miuht have
|been thrown beneath tUMe feet of the
horees, -

“Mr, Roosevelt looked at us
equarely "You know that you
should not @o ahead of our party,’
he said, his teeth showing Then ‘se
pounded off with his companions
‘The gitls and 1 were too martifed
}to reply. We rode back to ihe sem-
inary and while all of us believed
the inatler should be given all the
light possible, hecause we think
}that the action of the President was
) Wnwarranted and Unprecedented, the
}girls were reluctant to have thetr
;hames appear, because they are high-
lly connected and they know their
parents dislike the notoriety attomd.
jant upon euch an affair,’*

Captain Archibald W, Butt, mill-
| tary alde to the President, who of-
| ten rides with him, said Uthat there
}was undoubtedly some mistake, The
Presiktent, he said, always asks to

| whe Strathcona Chronicle, |=

_COHRONIOLE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1908

Tells Secret of
Night Riders

Union City, Tenn, Dec, 21.—The
secrets of the night riders who have
so long terrified the south, were lala

tate today at the trial of the eight | “Vening was very short, Insting: bare

men charged with being in the mob
that slew Captain Hankin at Reel
Foot Lake on the night of October
19 ty Frank Fohringer, confessed

night rider, who turned states evid- | °*d*.

ence,

Febringer’s dramatic evidence was
given under a guard of half q dozen
militia men with drawn revolvers
while q sqund of other militia men
with loaded rifles were stationed in
the court rooms. Feheringer stood
in court room under a guard, Cogl
and apparently thoughtless of hie
danger while the crowd in the room
strained toward him and was re
strained with diMculty even under

|e guatds of militia, The secretes

ond the passwords, the leader's name

jantd the time of meetings wera ex:

posed by the witness, Ile positively

jidentified four of the eight men on

trial as neembers of the band that

jimurdered Captain Rankin and impli-

jeated all of them.

| Fehringer, who ts soarcely more

ithan q boy in appearance, alchough |
25 years old, spoke in a voice so

iow that he could scarcely be heard,

leave during that part of his = story

om the time Captain Rankin and
| Col. Taylor were taken from Walnut
Log Hetel, to the time Rankin's
dead body dropped to the ground
and Col. Taylor made his escape,

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NANVNIHO ONTIODINS

(Western Associated Proas-)
Chicago, Dec, 18.—With the arrest
yesterday of three Chinamen just)
‘as they were about to be turned)
loo#e in the railroad yard of the|
Grand Trunk Railroad after they,
had been successfully emuggled in a
box car from Windsor, Canada, the
immigration authorities believe they
have a clus that will load to the ex-|
posure and the consequent punish-
mont of a Canadian-Atnerican organ-
ivation carrying on an extensive
smugeling of Ortentals into the Un-
ited Staten, The especial Chinese)
inspector, T. L, Plummer, after a
day's investigation,
night that he knew the identity of]
the four men who were intorrupted
in the work of releasing the China-
men from the sealed car, ¢4t who
escaped only after a revolver battle
with the rallroad detectives, wound
ing one of the detectives in the)
fight, With the possible arrest of
the supposed agents of the = mudig-|
gling organization — it in expected
there will be an exposure of the org-
anization which inspector Plummet
believes responsible for the smug.
gling of the Chinese, The three
Chinamen were arraigned jater in
the day before United States Com-
misatoner Foote and held in bonds
of $1,500 each The cases were sot
forth for hearing on Deoomber 24,
In default of bonds the Chinamen
wore committed to the county jail,

CANADIAN PACTRTIC PROTESTS
AGAINST TRAMS CROSSING

On the grounds that there Ie not
sulllclent protection provided, th
Canadian Pacific Railway company |
have fled «a protest with the Railway)
Commission of Canada, againat the!
crossing of the Edmonton HRadial
car tracks over the O.P.R. right of
way on Whyle avenue in Strathcona
The city commissioners have been
notified of the fling of the petition,
and it is understood that the city
will refuse to meet the demands of
the railway company. Argument
in the question will probably be
heard at Ottawa in the near future,

Tho C.P.R, officials ave demanding
the installation derailing switches,
at the dlamonds, and semaphores
along thelr right of way, at the ex-
pense of the city, similar to the me
thods of protection of level crosa-
ings provided tn eastern ecitios, It is
reported that- Superintendent Tay-
lor, of the Street Iwllway Depart-
ment, Objects to those Installations
on account af the delay which will
be antailed, It would be necessary, |
ho slates, for the car to stop at the!
tracks, while the conductor turned
the switch of the derailera and)
swung the semaphore lever,

The C.0.R, officials, in filing their}
protest, contend that a great deal |
of shunting is done on their line
over the crossing, and that conso-
quently there is grave danger of a
serious collision taking place, At
the time that the railway commis: |
sion granted permission for the
crossing to the city, the OC, P, R,|
did not furnish a consent to the
crossing in writing, ag waa done
by the other railway companies with
regard to the crossings in Kdmon-|
ton, as it was expected that they
would shortly file the protest on the
grounds stated,

It is conceeded in Strathcona that
the railway company is expecting
nothing snreasonable in roquesting
that protection be provided, and
that the installations asked for
would be in the interests ol the pub-
lic as woll as the railway company,
Superintendent Taylor of the Radial
allway, visited Strathcona yester-
day afternoon, with a view it ia be-|
lieved, of obtaining the consent of
the council there bearing a portion

be treated as an ordinary rider, and
when people give him the right. of
way because he is President it is
distinctly distasteful to hito.

of the cost of installing the sema-
phores and derailers, should the rall-
way Commission support the conten-

tion of the O.P.R, |

| from January Ist, and bis applic

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declared last | ently wgned to justify the council

‘cent, debentures for waterworks 4

| The assessor sald the afiessment

| over a pleee of land pureliased hy

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Busy Session of
City Council

regular weekly meeting of the
Strathcona city council on Tuesday

ly an hour, There were present ¢he
Mayor, and Aldermen Bush, Shep-
pard, Cameron, Tipton and Rich

We wish all our
customers a Merry

Among the communications read
was one from H, R. Mountifield, sec-
retary of the Western Timber &
Mines, Limited, Edmonton, who
wrote on behalf of his company, of-
fering their stone quarry, fifty miles
up the river, for sale, They hed
he expleined, expended something
like $5,000 in development work,
but thetr capital was now exhaust-
ed. They offered the property for
$15,000, The letter was fled,

Another letter was received from
Messrs. Magoon, Hopkins & James,
architects, Kdmonton, enclosing theig
account for $2,400 for plans of the
new hospital and asking for a pay-
ment of $1,500 on account, It was
resolved that the letter be tabled,
pending the report of the vity sobici-
tor, to whom the matter had been
referred,

The Harpell-Stokes Company, of
Winnipeg, who recently furnished a
pump for the power house, wrote
accepting the offer of $418 made
and instructing that the money be
paid to the Northern Crown
at Edmonton, The money was
dered to be paid, we

Chris, Young applied fos an im
crease in salory of $10 per momeb, |

Christmas and a Happy

and Prosperous New
OE fvek << -icws

Ss aasncan

2.2

J. F. WEIR,

Duggan Block

Sole Agent for Fit-Reform Clothing,
Carharit Overalls and Gloves,

lon was referred to the new counel, |

A letter was read from TY BR, Ma-
lone offering Lote 16 asd 1%, ia!
Biock 50, opposite the Gwe, sta |
tion, on Piret street, ae 0 Jam alo
nite The offer was Aled, |

\ petition was received Goa a
number of ratepayers that @ie ques

tion of post office sites be moped
and that another plebiscite tar ¢ i

on two of «the ap Poremede

vey site and the Archibald sem 4
communication was referred back to
the petitioners, as it was not suffle.

Letter From Santa Claus.

BEAR CHILDREN: '

The following are some of the things I want yon to see at

BLAIN & ©CO,'S STORE :—Wonderfol Toys, Games of All Kinda, Pie

taking further action } jure Books, Dolla, Masical Instraments, Children's Paints, Doll Carriages

Aliorman Sheppard asked the op. | Go Carte, Bede and Oradies Rocking Horses, Sleds and loads of other

sew of ee tp as to the denig- | handsome things, Be sure and oake wour eholce early and rem mber
a OE Mellin the $16,000 44 perl il the place, BLAIN & CO., Whyte 4ve., Phour 9094,

tensions issued some time
These honda are now held by the ee
porlal Bank as collateral. Two offs
have been recelved for thers,
equivalent ta a price of about 08,
The mayor pointed ou€ that” six
pet cont, was now being pal to the!
bank for the money guaranteed by! . ” ut

Sawa el St athoang House Caie

the aldermen thought one of there
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT

WHITE CHEF
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Yours very traly,

SANTA CLAUS

Alderman Sheppard eald that 4
ielpal bonds are now Boing asked
for in preferente to indu@trial donde
and he thought it advisable to dis.
pose of hs many of the dobentureé
on hand as posible while ‘the é&

mand! was good
the 826,000

It wae resolved thae
debentures be sold at once and 4,90

that 815,000 of the hospital detea-

inne bo sold to Pay the eont @ ho) MEALS SERVED AT ALL HOURS

nite purchased from Mr, John Web
tor The finanee committed

eked to arrange the sale, 2
Tho mayor

come i ou, a i MA nnn arn
Special Discounts on Lumber

sa te f “ report etat
derma, chords at aise Be

FOR CASH

Before Stocktaking

Iter had come up in his abeiape
Buy Now and Save Money

ing, bring in a

jie last mooting but it had been
ht to Ris attention sine, In
the electric departmentthe staff had
been cut down as much a® poerible,

ind then were only one or twon
employed now, wn

Alderman Bush sald be would be
able to make a report ab the next
meeting as to the water and sowor
department

Mr. Turner, waterworks minerin-
tendont, who was present, aald that
at prewent he had only one nen in
hiv employ and aid not see how he
Could dispense with this one man's
nerves

The councl! then sat esa court
of revitton to hear appears against
Asserstoont, Alderman Richards tak
ing the chair The assessor reported
that there were four appeal#as ful
lows! .:

Meewith, Hart «@ Co., en ther
Property on the corner of Matin

im ee ace. acl White Star Coal

by the Dominion Rank, They elatm- is

Od that an error bad heen ate.'n
$3 oO 0

measuring the f vw Mad
hey asseraed for 116 foot, wharens
the property only meeaures 105 fect,
a ton, Experience proves it the BEST and
CHEAPKST COAL,
It is sold by a home company doing busi-

The O’Brien-Dale Lumber Co.

Yard Phone 3238

Oftice Phone 3121

wes only for 105 feet, and it was
confirmed

Donald Ross. for sidewalk for iver
lot 17. He clatmed that ‘we was ne
stead for 1282 feet, when he had
only 980 feet, The troutile ares

t% BY. & P. Raliway The |
matter wae referred to the elty en
gin’er with instructions to take
measurements and report,

J, W. Melagean oblecttl to the
figures of measurements of frontage |
on his pronerty on the corer of
Fifth street east and Soskatehotan |
\ve., end the eneineer and asedwor
were Instructed to report thereon at
the next meeting,

The court of reviston then rose, |

rt of Travishon then rose Office: Strathcona Cartage Co.
the council resuraing ordinary tum |
vr. WoW. Totton, Nearly Opposite C.P.R. Station

representing
the Beenomical Gas Annaratus Con: |
phone 3352

ness year round in Strathcona and using

Strathcona miners and teamsters,
PATRONIZE HOME INDU

struction Co., of Toronto, was vre-
sent te renew his @ennlication for” a!
franchi@n but tn the absence of the
city @yliciter the matter could not,
be proceeded with K,

The Spoilers.

By REX B. BEACH.

Copyright, 18, by Rez BM Beach.

(Continued)
“That's how it is with me an’ Glen

ister,” the old man coneind 1. “When
he gets tired experimentin’ with this
new law game of hisn, I'll step tn an*
do business on a common sense basis.”

“You talk as if you wouldn't get fair
play,” said Helen.

“We won't,” sald he, with conviction.
*“] Jook on all lawyers with suspicion,
even to old baidface — your uncle,
askin’ your pardon an’ gettin’ it, bein’
ax I'm a friend an’ he ain't no real
relation of yours, anyhow. No, #ir
They're all crooked,”

Dextry held the western distrust of
the legal profession—comprehensive,
anreasoning, deep

“Ia the old man all the kin you've
got?” he questioned, when she refused
to diecues the matter.

“He le-in a way. I have a brother,
or | hope | have, somewhere. He ran
away when we were both little tads,
and I haven't seen him since, | heard
about him, indirectly, at Skagway
three years ago -during the big rush to
the Klondike, but he has never been
howe, When father died, I weit to
live with Uncle Arthur—some day, per-
haps, I'll find my brother, He's cruel
to bide from me this way, for there are
only we two left, and I've lovea him
always.”

She apoke sadly and her mood blend-
ed well with the gloom of her com-
penion, so they stared silently out over
the heaving green waters

“It's a good thing me an’ the kid bad
a little plece of money ahead,” Dextry
resumed later, reverting to the thought
that lay uppermost In his mind, “ ‘cause
we'd be up against It right If we
hadn't. The boy couldn't bave amused
himself none with these court proceed
ings, because they come high, IT call
‘om luxuries, like brandled peaches an’
silk undervhirts,

“TL don't trust these Jim Crow banks
no more than 1 do lawyers, either.
No, sirree! 1 bought a tron aafe an’
hauled it out to the mine, She weighs
1,800, and we keep our money locked
up there, We've got a feller named
Johnson watchin’ It. now. Steal it?
Well, hardly. They can't bust ber open
without a stick of ‘giant’ which would
rouse everybody in five miles, an’ they
can't Ing her ‘off; hoNy—she's too
heavy. No. It's safe¥ there than any
place I know Of, There ain't no ab
econdin' enehiers an’ all that, Tomor
rer T'in goin’ back to live on the claim
an’ wateh thie necetver' man Cl the
thing's settled.” ‘ ‘

When the girl arose to go, he accom
panied ber up through the deep sand of
the laneltike street to the malin muddy
thoroughfare of the cams An yet the
planked and graveled pavements which
later threaded the town Were unknown,
and the Mewseant trafic bad worn the
road into a quagmire of chotolate col
ored slush, almost axle deep, with

which the store fronts, ghow windows

and awnings were plentifully shot and
epattered from passing teams, When
ever © wagon approached pedestrians
fled to the shelter of neighboring door
ways, Watching a chance to dodge out
again, When vehicles passed from the
comparative solidity of the main street
out Into the morasses that constituted
the reat of the town, they adventured
perilously, thelr horses plunging, snort
ing, terrMed, auiid an atmosphere of
profanity Diecouraged sculmala were
down colittagtty, and no foot past
ger, even with rubber boots, ventured
off the planks that led from house to
house

To avold a splashing team Dextry
pulled his companion close in against
the entrance to the Northern
standing before ber protectingly,

Although It was late in the after
noon, the Bronco Kid bad just aren
and Wassnow ‘lonfing preparatory to
the active duties of his profession, He
wie spmaldng with the proprietor when
Destry and the girl sought shelter
just Without’ the open door, so he
catght a faly though Geeting giimpere
ofher as she dashed a curious look In
aide. She had tiever been so close to a
gambling ball before and would have
liked to peer in more carefully bad she
dared, but ber*companion moved for
ward, At the frat look the Bronco
Kid had broken off in bis speech and
stared at ber as though at an appari
tion When she bag vanished, he
spoke to Rellly: 4

“Who's thaty"

Reilly shrugged his shoulders; then,
without further question, the Kid turn-
ed back toward the empty theater and
out of the back door,

He moved nonchalantly till he was
outside, then with the speed of a colt
ran down the narrow planking between
the buildings, turned parallel to the
front atreet, leaped from board to
board, splashed through puddles of
water, till he reached the next alley,
Stamping the mud from bis shoes and
pulling down his sombrero, he saunter.
ed out into the main thoroughfare,

Dextry and lis companion had cross
ed to the other side and were ap
proaching, so the gambler gained a
fair view of them, He searched every
inch of the girl's face and figure, then,
4s she made to turn her eyes In his dl.
rection, he slouched away. He follow
ed, however, at a distance, till he saw
the man leave her, then on up to the

mloon

big hotel he shadowed her, A half
hour later be Was drinking in the
Golden Gate barroom with an ac

qitalntanee who ministered to the me
chanical details behind the hotel
counter,

“Who's the girl | saw come in just
now’ he inquired,

“I guess vou mean the judge's
niece.”
Both men spoke ‘\n the dead, re

stralned tones that go with thelr call
ings,

“What's her name?”

“Chester, I think, Why? Look good
to you, Kid’

-Although the other neither spoke nor
made sign, the bartender coustrued bis
silence as acquiescence and continued,
with a conscious glance at his own re
flection while he adjusted his diamond
ecarfplu: “Well, she can have me! I've
got it fixed to meet her,”

“Bah! I guess not,” sald the Kid
suddenly, with an inflection that star
tled the other frow his preening, Then,

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ag he went out, the man mused;

“Gee! Bronco's got the worst eye in
the camp! Makes me creep when he
throws it on me with that muddy look,
He acted like be was jealous.”

At noon the next day, as be prepared
to go to the claim, Dextry’s partner
burst In upon bim. Gleniater was dis-
heveled, and his eyes shone with in-
tense excitement

“What 4’ you think they've done
now?" he cried as greeting,

“| dunno, What is it?”

“They've broken open the safe and
taken our money.”

“What!”

The old man In turn was on his feet,

the grudge which he had felt against
tienieter 19 tue past tew days forgot

tea fo this common misfortune,

“Yous, by heaven, they've swiped our
money, our tents, tools, teams, books,
hose and all of our personal property—
everything! They threw Johnson off
and took the whole works, I never
heard of such a thing. 1 went out to
the claim, and they wouldn't let me
go near the workings. They've got
every mine on “Anvil creek guarded
the same way, and they aren't going
to let us come around even when they
clean up. They told me so this morn:
ine.”

‘But, look here,” demanded Dextry
sharply, “the money in that safe be
longs to us. That's money we brought
in from the States, The court ain't
got no right to it What kind of a
damn law is that?"

“Oh, as to law, they don't pay any
attention to it any more,” sald Glen
leter bitterly, “I made a mistake fo
not killing the first man that set foot
on the claim, 1 was a sucker, and now
we're up against a stiff game. The
Swedes are in the same fix, too, This
last order bas left them groggy.”

“1 don't understand It yet,”
Dextry.

“Why, it's this way: The judge has
jasued what he calls an order enlarg
ing the powers of the receiver, and it
authorizes McNamara to take posses
sion of everything on the claims—tents,
tools, stores and personal property of
all kinds, It was issued last night
without notice to our side, so Wheaton
enys, and they served It this morning
early. 1 went out to see McNamara,
and when I got there I found bim In
our private tent with the safe broken
open.”

“What does this mean? I sald, And
then he showed me the new order,

“I'm responsible to the court for
every penny of this money,’ sald he,
‘and for every tool on the claim, In
view, of that I can't allow you to go
near the workings,’

“'Not go near the workings? sald
1. ‘Do you mean you won't let us see
the cleanups from our own mjne?
How do wavknow we're getting a
aquare deal If we don't see the gold
welghed 7 i

“‘'T'm on officer of the court and
under bond,’ sald be, and the smiling
triumph in his eyes made me crazy,

‘You're a lying thief, 1 sald, Ik:
ing at him square. ‘And you're going
too far, You played me for a fool
once aud made it stick, but It won't
work twice.’

“He looked Injured and aggrieved
and called In Voorhees, the marshal. 1
can't grasp the thing at all, Every:
body seems to be against us—the
Judge, the marshal, the prosecuting at-
torney, everybody, Yet they've done
it all according to law, they claim, and
have the soldiers to back them up.”

“Its Just as Mexico Mulling sald,”
Dextry stormed, “There's a deal on of
some kind. I'm goto’ up to the botel
an’ call on the Judge myself, 1 ain't
never seen him nor this MeNamara
elther, | allus want to look a man
straight in the eves once, then | know
what course to foller In my dealin's.”

“You'll Gad them both,” sald Glenls
ter, “for, McNamara rode into town
behind me

The old prospector proceeded to the
Golden Gate hotel and inquired for
fodge Stillman'’a room, A boy attempt.
ed to take bls name, but he selzed
him by the seruff of the neck and sat
film In his sent, proceeding unan-
nounced to the suit to which be had
been directed, Hearing voices, he
knocked and then, without awalting a
summons, walked In.

‘The room was fitted Iike an office,
with desk, table, aypewriter and law
books. -@élyr, tpoms opened from it on
both sides * Two men were talking
eurnestly-one gray hatred, smooth
@huven aud clerical, the other tall, ple
tureeque and masterful, With bis first
glonce the miner knew that before him
were the two he had come to see and
that In reality he had to deal with but
one, the big man who shot at him the
level glances,

“We are engaged,” sald the judge;
“very busily engaged, slr, Wil you
eall agai in half an bour?"

Dextry looked him over carefully
from head to foot, then turned bis
back on him and regarded the other,
Nelther be nor McNamara spoke, but
thely eyes were busy, and each inating
tively knew that here was a foe,

“What do you want?’ McNamara tn-
quired finally,

“1 just dropped in to get acquainted
My name Is Dextry—Joe Dextry—from
everywhere west of the Missourl, Av’
your name is McNamara, ain't it? This
here, | reckon, is your littl Freneh
poodle~eb?" Indicating Stillman,

“What do you mean?’ sald McNa-
mara, while the Judge murmured to
dignantly,

“Just what 1 say, Tlowever, that
aint what I want to talk about, |
don’t take no stock In such truck as
Judges an’ lawyers an’ orders of court
They ain't Intended to be took serious
They're all right for children an’ east:
erners an” non compos mentia people,
I spose, but I've always been my own
judge, jury an’ bangman, an’ I alm.to
continue workin’ my legisiatif, execu
tif an’ judicial duties to the end of the
string, You look out! My pardner Is
young an’ seems to like the idee of
lettin’ somebody else run his business,
so I'm goin’ to give Lim rein and let
him amuse himself for awhile with
your dinky little writs an’ receiver:
ships, But don't go too far, You can
rob the Swedes, ‘cause Swedes ain't
entitled to bave no money, an’ some
other crook would get it if you didn’t,
but don't play me an’ Glenister fer
Scandinavians, It's a mistake, We're
white men, an’ I'm apt to come ro-
mancin’ ‘up bere with one of these anv’
bust you so you won't hold together
durin’ the ceremonies,”

With his last words he made the
slightest shifting movement, only a
lifting shrug ofthe shoulder, yet in
his palm lay a six shooter. He bad
Uipped it from lis trousers band with

sald

THE CHRONICLE, STRATHCONA, ALBER(A.

the ease of long practice and absolute
surety. Judge Stillman gusped and
backed against the desk, but McNa
mara idly swung bis leg as be sat side
wise on the table. His only sign of in
terest was a quickening of the eyes, t
fact of which Dextry made mental
hote,

“Yes,” sald the miner, disregarding
the alarm of the lawyer, “you can wear
this court In your vest pocket like a
Waterbury, if you want to, but if you
don’t let me alone, I'll unecol! Its inalo
spring. That's all.”

He replaced his weapon and, turning,
walked ont the door,

(To be Continued)

THE OPSONIC TEST. ©

What It Showed the Man Who Smoked
a Great Deal.

Hila friends knew that be would rath-
er miss haif ao hour of a play than
cut short bis after dinner cigar, and
they were astonished when he an
nounced that be had quit smoking.

“What's the trouble?” he was asked.

“Opsonte test,” he replied gloomily.

“What in the world Is that?”

“I've been run down of late and feel-
ing pretty blue. As there is consump
tion In my fatily, 1 consulted a spe
claliat. He said | didn't bave the dis-
ense yet, but he would tell me what
my chances were of getting it. We
are constantly breathing tuberculosis
germs, be explained, but healthy blood
has the power to destroy them. So he
took a drop of my blood and thocu-
lated it with a certain humber of
gerins, In half an hour he examined
it under the microscope and found that
only half as many germs had been
killed as should have been the case,
Normal, healthy blood ts sald to bave
an opsonic test of 100, so my test was
only 50. He advised me to bulld up

my strength by sanitary lving—lots of | cents a box,

free) alr day and wight, plenty of
sleep, wholesome food and moderation
in work and pleasure.”

“Where does amoking come In?"

“He sald that tobacco had an ex-
traordinary effect In decreasing the
power of the blood to destroy germs.
Some men who smoke a great deal
have an opsonie test of zero—that ts,
their blood bas no effect whatever on
regs. 1 am fond of my cigar, but
when a specialiet levels an opsonic
teat all cocked ond primed at your
head and says, “Tobacco or your life,’
what are you gotng to do but throw up
your bands?’'—New York Tribune,
Aa

DESOLATION ISLAND.

Kerguelen Land Is a Region of Per-
petual Storms.

Of all places on earth outside the
arctic and antarctic regions Kerguelen
Land, to the Indian ocean, is the most
Isolated and inhogpitable, Indeed, It
is generally known to mariners pot by
its official title, but as Desolation is»
land, .

Most nations have owned It by turna,
bat It has been sooner or later aban-
doned by them all as worthless, and
this although it covers an area varl-
ously estimated at from 1,500 to 2,000
square miles. At present France ts to
nominal possession of it, she having
annexed It in 18,

The soll is utterly barren, Practt
cally the whole of the Interior is cov-
ered with snow flelda of unknown
depth, whence glaciers tow down to
the sea, Where there are no snow
Helds there are morasses and bidden,
treacherous mudholes,

The climate is probably the worst to

another practically without ceasing
and are accompanied by torrents of ice
cold rain, hall, sleet and anow, The
Challenger expedition spent a month
there,.during which time there were
only three fine days. And this was tn
DecemberJanuary, when it ts mild
summer In those latitudes,

Its discoverer, M, Kerguelen Trema-
rec, although at firat he professed to be
enraptured with It, ved to confess
that It was unfit for human habitation,
“Not even Exkimos,” he exclaimed,
‘vould exist there,”—Pearson's,

Too Cheap.
The class at kirk had been reading

and it came to the turn of the visitng
tulnister to examine the boys,

The replies to all of his questions bad
been quick, Intelligent and correct,
such aa:

“What great crime did these sons of
Jacob commit?”

“They rnold thelr brother Joseph.”

“Quite correct. And for how much?"

“Twenty pleces of silver.”

“And what added to the cruelty and
wickedness of these bad brothers?”

A pause

“What made thelr treachery even
more detestable and belnous?”

Then a bright little fellow stretched
out an eager band,

“Well, my man?”

"Please, slr, they selt him ower
cheap.” ad

Very Nearly Trouble,

“Horace, you don't love me as you
used to,”

“Not altogether, my dear, When we
were fret married | loved yoy for your
beauty. Now | love you for your real
worth, your any excellencles of miod
and heart aud for your’

“Bo, Horace Higgsworthy! You think
I've got entirely over my good looks,
do you? Let me tell you, sir’

“And for your unfalllog sweetuess of
disposition, my dear.”

Uncertain whether to go ahead and
scold him just the same or to indulge
in a good cry, she compromised by
dolug nelther and fell to daralng bis
socks with revnewud evergy,

“Setting the River on Fire.”

In old English thnes, when each
familly was obliged to sift its own flour,
It sometines happened that an ener-
getic man would turn bis sleve so rap
idly as to cause It to cateh fire. The
style of sleve used in those days was
called a “tewnse,” and it became a cus
tomary saying that a lazy man would
never set the temse on fre. Now, tt
happens that the name of the river
Thames is pronounced like the name
of this old four sieve, and after many
years, when the old fashioned temse
was forgotten, It was thought that set
ting the temse on fire meant setting
the river on fire, and that is why to
day we say that a atupld person will
never set the river on fire,

the world, Terrific tempests follow one |

(THE PANGS OF SCIATICA] FAwous nuw's DEATH

Can Be Cured by the Fair Use of
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills,

’ Fierce darting pains. Pains like red
hot needles being driven thaough the
fleseh—in the thigh, perhaps down the
legs to the ankles—that’s sciatica.
None but the victim can realize the
torture of this trouble. But the suf-
ferer need not grow discotiraged for
there is a cure in Dr. Willliame’ Pink
Pills, These Pills enrich the blood,
feed the starved sciatic nerve
thus drives out the pain. Mrs. Joseph
L. Brown, Wilmot, N.8., was a victim
of sciatica and found a cure in Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills. She says:—
“Por a year I was laid up with scia-
tica from my side to my foot. What
I suffered was at times awful. I could
not touch my foot to the floor and
had to hobble about with a cane. My
right leg was drawn up and J never
expected to have the use of it again.
I was attended by our family doctor,
and tried several other remedies, but
with no benefit, and I felt very much
discouraged, One day I read of the
cure of a similar sufferer through Dr.
Williams’ Pink Pills, and I decided
to try them. T got six boxes, and by
the time I had taken them I was com-
pletely cured, and have not had the
slightest twinge of the trouble since.
I am, therefore, a very enthusiastic
friend of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills,
and recommend them to all who are
similarly troubled.”

There is no mystery about the cures
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills make. They
act upon the blood, enriching and
purifying it, and in this way feed the
nerves and reach the root of the dis-
ease, That is. why they cure such
common ailments as anaemia, pim-
ples and eczema, indigestion, rheum-
atiam, neuralgia, St. Vitus dance, par-
alysia, and the irregularities in health
of growing girls and women, Sold by
all medicine dealers or by mail at 60
or six boxes for $2.60
from the Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont, >

A certain man had a disastrous ex-
pocsenae in gold mine speculations,
Ine day a number of colleagues were
discussing the subject of speculation,
when one of them said to this specu-
lator:

“Old chap, as an expert, give ua 4
definition of the term ‘bonanza.’”

“A ‘bonanza,’ replied the experi-
enced man, with emphasis, “is a hole
in the ground owned by a champion
liar !"’-Pick-Me-Up.

A Pill that Proves its Value.—Those
of weak stomach will find strength in
Parmeiee’s Vegetable Pilla, because
they serve to maintain the healthful
action of the stomach and the liver,
irregularities in which are most dis
tressing. Dyspeptics are well ac-
quainted with them und value them
at their proper worth. They have af-
forded relief when other preparations
have failed, and have effected cures
in ailments of long standing where
other medicines were found unavail-
ing.

Be What You Are.
yasion’s slave, be
thrall—
But be it, utterly, all in all!
Be not taday, to-morrow, one,
Another when a year is gone,
Re what you are with all your heart,
And not by pieces and in part,
Henrik Ibsen

Ke pleasure's

Repeat it:—' Shiloh's Cure will al-
ways cure my coughs and colds."

In New York city considerable more
than one-half of all the people, or
about 2,800,000 persons, have deposits
in the savings tanks,

As a vermifuge there ia nothing so
potent as Mother Graves’ Worm Ex-
terminator, ‘and it can be given to
the moat delicate child without fear
of injury to the constitution,

The newest thing in freak photo-

graphy in Egypt is posing for photo-
graphs in cardboard sphinx moulds
and mummy cases, A hole ia left

where the face of the sphinx should
be, and English and American faces
peer out from thia vantage upon the
photographer, Exceptionally live
mummy effects are made in the same
way

Repeat

cure my coughs and colds,”

It in said that when Macaulay, 4
boy of six, was asked to have some
more pudding, he politely replied,
“Thank you I have enjoyed an ample
sufficiency,”

This sage roy
little Clevelanc

nly ia matched by a
girl, who, when offer-
ed a second frosted cake, showed
her excellent training by answering,
“Mamma has directed me to always
refrain from taking a second piece of
anything.”

It is gratifying to know, however,
that the childish nature promptly re-
asserted itself when the little maid
added;

“But you can lay it on my plate, if
you please.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer,

Minard's: Liniment Cures Distemper,

Bill Smith is a Bucks county store:
keeper, and last spring he came down
to Philadelphia to purchase his stock
of goods for the summer trade, The
goods were shipped immediately and
reached his store before he did.
Among the lot of cases and packages
was a box shaped something like a
coffin, When Bill's wife saw this one
she uttered a scream and called for
hammer. The drayman, hearing her
shrill cries, rushed in to see what the
trouble was, The wile, pale and faint,
pointed to the following inscription
on the box: “Bill inside.’ Phila-
delphia Ledger.

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A DOGS’ CLUB.

| London's Luxurious Resort For Aristo-
eratic Canine Pets.

Londen Is the only city tu the world |
boasting a dogs’ club. The club ts fn a |
plensant suit of rooms near the Troca: |
dero and close to Regent street. Hand
some rugs cover the floors, the win |
dows are vetled In lace and silk, and |
luxurious sofas are ranged against the

|
|

Mother Doyle Assisted Miss Florence
Nightingale In Crimean War.

One of the most interesting survi-
rors among the few who still remain
of the noble band of women who nurs-
ed with Miss Florence Nightirigale in
the Critnea has passed away in Moth-
er Mary Aloysius Doyle, at the Con-
vent of Merey, Gort, sony, Galway,
Ireland. The venerable lady had at-
tained the great age of 94 years, but
her faculties were unimpaired, The

eat value of the services rendered
fy the first party of nurses who went
out with Miss Nightingale led Mr.
Sidney Herbert to request Miss Stan-
ley, sister of the former Dean of
Westminster, to select further rein-
forcements for her, and letters were
written to all the convents in Ireland
for trained volunteers. In the Com-
munity-Room of the Convent of Mer-
cy, Carlow, that letter was read aloud,
and all the nuns expressed their de-
sire to go. Sister Mary Aloysius and
Sister Mary Stanislaus, both devoted
and enthusiastic, and ersonally
strong, were chosen, and the depar-
ture was made with all promptitude.
stown they joined others of
contingent, and started amid
loud demonstrations of admiration
and approval. In London they. re-
ceived the benediction of Dr, Man-
ning. Sailing from Portsmouth, they

walls, while n profusion of soft pil
lows are senttered about for the com
fort of nristocratie doga who prefer
the floor for a nap, Dainty satin lined
wicker baskets are provided for the |
smaller pets, The membership fee is
half a sovorelgn, but this does not to
clude meals, baths or tips to the at- |
tendants. |
Ladies going shopping or to the thea
ter leave their pugs and poodles at the
club and give the attendant tn charge
at the time a few shillings for looking
after it, but If the dog ts fed half a
crown ts charged. This pays for a mut
ton chop and milk. A whole crown
provides the little animal with minced
chicken. For a balf soveretan Fido te
bathed, brushed and perfanied, and If
he ta a French poodle bis hair is care |
fully curled. A veterinary ts attached |
to the club to see that only dogs tn

the Iris

2 » dinitted, all sick
traveled acroaa France, embarking | perfect health are ac F
again at Marseilles. They had a members being quarantined In a sepa |
wretched passege on the old Egyptus | rate room. Blankets, boots, collars

harness, soaps and brushes and all the |
accessories of a fashionable dog's tol
let as well as dog medicines are sold at
the club.—New York Press, |

to Gallipoli, where they disembarked.
Miss Nightingale had not work at first
for the new arrivals at Scutari, but as
soon as Christmas was over she found
calls for five, among whom was Sister
Mary Aloysius, at the General Hos-
pital. Here her first duties were in
the stores,

They followed the campaign through
and on their return to Dublin the
sisters wore received with every mant-
festation of affection, a grand Te
Deum was sung, and a High Mass of
thankagiving offered. Subsequently
Sister Mary Aloysius went to the con-
vent at Gort, where her sister is still
living. But, though living in quiet,
her services had not been forgotten,
and in the year of the Diamond Jubi-
lee meee Victoria conferred upon her
the decoration of the Royal Red Cross,

A PENSION REVELATION. ©

Irishman Proves to Have Lived II!
Years In One Parish.

May a romance fa being revealed
through the investigation of the
claima for old age pensions. Among
the applicanta in Ireland is Charles
Kelly, who lives in the parish of In-
ver, among the wild mountaina near
the little town of Mount Charles,
Donegal.

This wonderful old man haa reached
the romarkable age of 111, but his
sight and hearing are still fairly
good, and his interest in the working
of the little holding on which he
resides (and which is now owned by
hia youngest son, a sprightly youth
of aixty) is unabated,

Mr. Kelly was born about three
miles from Mount Charles, and has
never lived out of the parish of Inver.
He practically created the little house
and holding out of the barren moun-
tain side on which it stands, He
jokes with animation on the labora of

is early days, when he carried on
his back from the adjoining moors
every stone for the construction of
his houge. Seen from a distance the
little farm, marked by a few trees,
stands ont like an onsia amid the
desert of barren brown heath with
which it is surrounded,

The old man had a vivid recollee-
tlon of the etrug¢les he underwent in
tiding over the awful yearw of the
Trish famine, bat, remote as he haa
always been from towns and unable
to read or write, he has but little re-
collection of historical or political
eventa which took place during his
life,

A Candid Critic.

“A eriticiam that has helped me a
great deal In my work came from f
man to whom | took a picture to be
framed,” said a young woman who
spends much of her time copying in the
Metropolttan Museum of Art. “As the
pleture orogressed my ftiends told me
it was kne, Some of the other copy tists
sald It bad value, character, good color
ing and all those things, and even ont
of the guarda in the gallery got rea
friendly one day and remarked that I
was the best copy of that picture tn
had seen. | began to think that maybe
after all, my several years of stud:
were beginning to bear fruit, At th
framers 1 picked out a nice frame, am
the framer began to Hgure on the coat

“Tl tell you, mies,’ be sald, ‘tha
frame will come to $3.08 If I wer
you I'd get something cheaper for that
pleture.’ "—New York Sun.

A Cure for Rhe

umatiem.—A painful
and persistent form of rheumatian
ja caused by impurities in the blood
the result of defective action of the
liver and kidneys. The blood be
comea tainted by the introduction of
uric acid, which causes much pain in
the ticaues and in the joints, Par
molee’s Vegetable Pills are known to
have-effected many remarkable cures
and their use ia strongly recommend:
ed. A trial of them will convince
anyone of their value

“So your son Josh is going to law
school?”

“Yea,” anawered Farmer Corntoasel,
“but he don’t pay no ‘tention what-
ever to his books, I guess maybe
he's a-going to be one of these here
unwritten lawyers.”

CANADIAN
PACIFIC

ANNUAL

EASTERN CANADA
EXCURSIONS

The Premier's Trick.

At a moeting In Liverpool on one
oceasion Mr. Asauith began a sen:
tence, stopped in the middle pf it, and
took a culp of water from a tumbler

Low Round Trip Rates to

ONTARIO, QUEBEC AND

beside him The audience roared, /
ri” sald. the Promior, “thats s| MARITIME PROVINCES
trick T learned of Bob Lowe. ‘If you

Ticketa on sale Dee, 1 to Dec, 31, in
clusive, good to return within three
montha,

Tickets issued in connection Atlantic
Bieamship Business will be on sale
from Nov. 21, and limited to five
months from date of issue,

Finest Equipment. Standard First
class Sleeping and Tourist Cars on all
Through Trains,

2 Through Express Trains Dai'y

THE “TORONTO EXPRESS"
Leaves Winnipeg daily at 22.10, mak. ,
ing connections at Toronto for all

points east and west thereof,
Apply to nearest C.P.R. agent for full

information.

stop to drink at the end of a een-
tence, depend upon it some other fel-
low will pop up to eut you short,’ he
said.” Aa an example of the Prem-
ler’a wit. the following might be re
enlled, One of the first law cases in
which Mr. Asquith came into prom-
inence was the famous trial of Hawke
v. Dunn, when the Anti-Gambling
Leagie did their utmost to prohibit
betting on Kempton Park race course,
Mr. Asquith appeared for the league,
and areved that the course was “a
ploce within the meaning of the act.”
During the hearing various more or
leas acceptable theories were put for-
ward as to what did not constitute
a pleece. “Suppose,” said Mr, Jus
tiee Wright, “IT were to give you an
aren marked by the meridians of |
longitude, would that constitute a
place in your opinion, Mr, Asquith?”
“That, my lord,” was Mr, Asquith’s
instant and witty retort, “would be
merely a matter of degree,”

Sun Melts Ore,

A citizen of Johannesburg, Bouth
Africa, has come forward with an in-
vention that will revolutionize the
amelting of ores, the heat of the aun
being the only heat required,

The inventor uses a metal cylinder
slung from a sort of gallows, The
smaller end is a carbon crucible en-
cased in graphite, and the larger end
of the cylinder is turned to the sun,
the rays of which are focused into the
crucible, which very soon beeomes
white hot. Pieces of metal paced in
the crucilfle are rapidly melted, the
temperature being 2,550 degrees,

EVERYWHERE
ASK

years of Constant Betterment hav

Ideas of the Soul,

The old Egyptians thought the soul
was a bird with a human face and hu-
man hands, whieh, on the death of
him tn whom it dwelt on earth, flew
to the gods, its kin, Drawings and
sculptured figures show this little
winged soul, sometimes represented as
perched by the sarcophagus, touching
the mummy, in a last farewell before
it rose in heavenward flight,

Among the Greeks the soul was
thought of as a tiny human figure, In
Roman days the butterfly was taken as
Its symbol, In mediaeval pletures aud
reliefs we see it leaving the mouth of
the dead, elther as a child or as a tiny
naked man-—as, for example, is shown
in the Campo Santo of Pisa in Orca-

Whether yon consider

C

EDDY'S MATCHES

HRONIG GATARR
RELIED BY E--Wh

f ee ”
MRS, F.
MRS. F. CARR, Vineland, Ont.,
Can., writes
“Por several years T wae afflicted

with catarrh, which made life a bur-

den. The coughing and hacking
whieh accompanied the disease was
terrible.

“The complaint finally extended to
the stomach and [ was in a wretched
condition,

“TL tried different remedies and the
best professional treatment all in vain,

“Finally, as a last resort, I tried
Peruna upon the recommendation of
my sister in Hamilton,

“T could see steady improvement
and after using four bottles of that
precious medicine LT was feeling well
again, my old trouble being complete.
Iya thing of the past
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or

A Smile or Two.

Mra. Stubb—Now, women are not
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Mr. Stubb (with a sigh)—Oh, if
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4 irrevocable dishonor attached to
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“an compare paychological notes; they
“an bring forward useful guggeations
for reform.—Queen,

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4
‘Ts carve bac? wel”

in the kitchen and the dismenm-
bered fowl or the seileed Joint te

| N these days when carving le done
serve him-

passed that each may
the @entie art of wielding « cary
i knife ie in danger of falling inte
disuse At any dinner with preten-
slione to ceremony there le no appear
ance before the host of the tmoking
Teest, and the younger fr nbers of
the household have fo opportunity te
become famillar with carving by
watching the exploite of a skiljed
" er of the carving knife, Yet etnee
all things come around in there
je « itkellhood that we aaan
eee carving done by the master of the
house even at large dinners, while at
the home board a knowledge of thie
fort of thing is essential i have
therefore thought tt worth while to
aive a teow ations gained from
@ master in the art,

The first essential le @ good cary.
ing knife, and to keep tt good it ts
aimost necessary to guard it under
Jock and key, That vant te pos-
seaved of abnormal conscientiousness
who can restet the temptation to ap.
propriate for cutting bread or cake a
knife with a fine edge, Buch an edge
will quickly disappear If the biede is
devoted to any other than Ite legitt-
huute uses, The carving fork accom
panies the knife, but in cutting large
Joints or fowls it ts well to have a
supplementary fork, so that the one
plunged into the meat to steady it
for the carver need not be withdrawn
to serve the slices cut from the ronet
larae forks of varying detrees of
elegance and cost come now for this
special purpose.

There are some persone who shrink
from the carving of 4 fowl of any
eort,.but to any one with @ little ex-

self

time
may

change conducted by you (whe
he been my lifelong Ciiend and

Guide tn culinary and Other dumesite mat-
ters), | am taking the liberty ef writing te
you with reeard to certain matters from
which others, as well as myself, are euf-
ferers

One te the importance ef everybody hav-
tne bis or her own comb and brush, and
using no other, especially when One gore
from home to visit in another person's
house. You may think thie an odd sugges
ten, a@ naturally you, along with all other
eonsibie, well-bred people, would imagine
that anybody raised in @ Civilized land
would comprehend the necessity of using
one’s own property when It comes to totlet
. lee, such as halr and tooth brushes,
combs, powd ule and the which
come inte constant contact with the hatr
and skin, Nowadays, few hostesses provide
these articles for occasional visitors. We
ail know how many suffer from infectious
eulaneous affections

Won't you aive your views upon this mat-
ter, and give them strongly’ You can
hardly speak too decidedly of these of-
fenecs against health and good taste I
could give you Iilustrations by the doren,
As, for example, when @ visitor (who ought
to have known betier) sald to her hoste
fingering the tvory-hendied 4 ally
backed utensils glittering on the dressing
bureau:

"Your comb and brush are #0 Gne that I
shan't unpack mine while I am here.”

Whereupon, she let down her balr and
proceeded to keep her word, What could
the hostess say? The aforesaid utensils
were as bright and new as if they had
never been used before, The visitor had a
scanty head of hair, and took oecasion to

Bras: & constant reader of the Bu-

say presently

“tL can't think why my hair falls out so
dreadfully! And I can't keep it free of
dandruftt"’

Bhe must have known that falling hair
and dandruff are indications of a diseased
scalp, Also, that skin diveases are in-
variably contegious, | hope the brush and
comb were disinfected before the arrival
cf the next guest, or that she had the
common decency to use her n.

Secondly, please give some strong hints
as to the proper way of eating chicken
especially fried chicken, | wish I could
sketch for your paper the pleture I saw
yestirday at the table of @ friend A
visitor who calls herself @ member of one
of ‘the first families’ (save the mark!)
was eating @ part of the breast of the
fowl, Now there ts no exeuse upon earth
for tek ng this in the Angers. least of ali

with all the fingers and thu of t
bands, Hu this she “did, bolding eu the

Wher She 37 v7)
opund p My Ag Ra A
PEW? Peress fhe mecarr*

perience
member

it ts really easter to dis
4 bird then to carve beef
well, When the fowl lies on ite back
in the dish, the carver firet tranefixes
the breast with the fork, holding it
firmly, while with the knife he cute
the wing on the aide from the
body If the fowl ta tender this ts

eastly done, the knife being given an
undercut, #0 lo speak, The leg on the

same side is next attacked, the second

near

digits tightiy upon the portion of chicken.
Siaring over it as if afraid she would be
robbed of the toothsome morsel

We are told by these whe ought to know
what te right and becoming In social usages
that 1 te permissivie to take @ bone of
geome or fowls datntily thumb and
er,
Thee this woman talked of what she had
“et somewhere, and, lest we might

it Ft am pets gram
nor am English scholar, nor yet
Hut these
state of nervous
ted I to call
“provincial esolecieme, 1 should get
into ead trouble But you are in poal-
tion (0 ey what you like, These women
oan't thnow brushes and chicken bones at
your head Wen't you do « little mite
Hlonary work im Ute fein
A TIMID MEMBER (Pensacols, Fie)

I hardly believe our malcontent
member meant that | should print her

matlan,

*) arbier as to lable manners,
in @

things keep me
fa

letter, She wrote from the abundance
of her d.scomfort, and left it to me
to set the case before our family. But

she has told the tale too well for me
to step into her shoes. Ivery word
she saya ia true, and two-thirds was
left untold, As long ago as when I
Was @ girt (f dare not hint how long
ago that was!) my diaphragm and
temper rose together, as, lifting my
head from the pillow on which | was
supposed by my roommate to be
sleeping the sleep of the unsuspect.
loge~l saw her fret dress her hair
with my brush and comb, nao lecting
her own that lay beside them, then
serub her nails with my toothbrush.
Like the heroine of the chicken
breast, she called herself a lady of
high line and breeding,

“That * in @ rude a I hear
Mies Dainty say. “Nowadays, every-
body is au fait to the niceties of
table etiquette.”

Yet it is not a hundred years—not
yet ninety days—since I beheld a live.
ly tussle between the bone of a chop
and the 18-year-old daughter of a
distinguished jurist. And this across
the table at which her parents were
sitting, placidly inattentive to the
“Violante-in-the-pantry” performance
going on tn full sight of a dozen
fellow-guesta,

It was my luck, two years 6
winter, to be the Viere-vie at's ‘din:

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THE CHRONICLE, STRATHCONA, ALBERTA.

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ner party of @ firet-honor man, lately Perturbed by Foreign “Bees” hour, At

graduated from one of our finest unt-
versities, He had that day, as
his proud mother had informed us in
the drawing room, received a govern.
ment appointment as attache to a
forelan legaton. Looking around the
corner of a floral centerplece to offer
my congratulations to the rising
young fellow, | met his eyes across
the of a chicken with which he
Was actively engagedif ase the
saying i*, “tooth and toenall"--with
all his front teeth and both hands
He tore at it, ae his « would hardly
have done until he had carried the
prise out of elaht, and his eves (a
fine palr, by the way) betrayed no
confusion In meeting my gase. He
was serenely unconscious of any vio-
lation ef table manners.

1 have noted the like d sregard in
college boys of what stay-at-

very

other
homes regard as
everyday behavior,
to add-—and co lerte

the proprieties of
1 wish I
ells as

had not
well

BUNDAY

BUMAKF AST.

Raked apples and cream
bination 88 @ cold owlral;

eaten In com.
ham omelet,
tea end coffee
LUNCHEON
fluffed tamatoes ‘orepared Batu vy)
hot peers ‘mndwlohes brown bread. wlteng
nd buttered; potato lad, with rene
easing; Wine cake and jelly, tee
DINNER,

popovers, toast

Poteu-feu, roas ‘ bab rie
bs Ag 57 setulae Sashes petastin beunah
MONDAY
BREAKFAST,

Grapes | and cream. trolled bacon,
Prene cast, lea and coffee,
LUNCHEON,
Chicken bh toast (a left-over),
tea bisoults med Ppolate §=cakes,
breaded (a ‘eft t); fried rloe (a left.
over), canned fhome made) and
cream, light cakes, cocoa
DINNER.
sou, founded brumels sprouts

ver), deviled chicken (a left-over),

"with obitce, “Vlack comes,

BREAKFAST.

with tain “asure! ateredpotsl ens Wore
a i ° 1,
and white bread, toast, tea and coffee, rhe

AN

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Joint and drumaticke being severed tn
one pleee, A cut Into the meat and
& pressure of the bone outward should
effect thie unless the fowl be tough
To take off the aldebone the blade of
the knife must be run along the back-
bone and a« little twist given to the
kolfe. The same operation must be
performed to the wing and leg on the
other alde of the bird

This leaves the breast free to be

My John went abroad last summer on
business, He has come home with « whole
hive of bees in bis bonnet. They are all
French bees He was & guest in a French
country. house fer a week, the hot betng
connected with Jehn's fr here in some
way. At any rate, he eeked my hushend to
tay « few dave with him. They are not
rich people end make fo pretension te
style” but John ty rvelvus yarne of
what they hed to eat and how Hithe living
cone over there, He te daft to have me
study French everyday cookery and I don't
know how to beain, He says that even
the potatoes ha y alr we never impart
to our Anest Clehee
le all this sober fact? or was my sober
husband Lewliched by the novelty of it allt
JANETTA L. (Chicago)

Tat me tell you what our family party

sew one day as we were “doing” the
Touraine chateaux, We stopped for
luncheon at what would be called with
ve “a house of entertainment” by the

wayside, in an agricultural district, and
asked if we could be served in half an

... FAMILY MEALS FOR A

LUNCHBON

Fish and potate h
baked toast rahem
cheese ean whe lettuce and bean salad,
bread pudding

DINNER
pnd our oun (partly @ loft.
“ig ei eweet potatoe seule
ereamed onions, suet dump-
lings with hard sauce, blick coffee

Chicken

WEDNESDAY
BREAKFAST
Grapefruit, Indian meat mush with
cream, con and green peppers, muf
fins, toast, tea and coffee

LUNCHBON
rarebit. onion soum

im and lettuce salad, b

and pot cheese, jam t

DINNER

quette of veal, fri

pices rapes, custar
coffee.

THURSDAY

BREAKFAST.

Oranges, cereal and ©

fried mush (a left-over),
tea and coffee

LUNCHEON

Beallop of veal (a jeft-over),

warmed over, walad gplant

over) and endive with French dressing.

rackers and cheese, griddle cakes and

oney, tea.

m, bacon &
ot rolls, t

renee

/
- gL Re
ON aanity

in slices, and thua open
to Insert @ spoon at the neck and
take out the dressing, which usually
fille the breast, and sometimes the
body, of a roasted fowl, To cut the
drumatick from the second joint or
jotnte of the wing apart ts an easy
matter

There ts on iden that a duck ts an ex
coedingly diMcult fowl to carve, and
much harmless pleasantry has been dis.

carved the

war

the end of that time we eat
down fish, such an Omelet as
only a French cook can concoct, chops
and green artichokes with sauce
tartare, a salad, frult and coffee, wind-
ing up with country chee and biscuits
Everything w exquisitely cooked and
daintily served, and the bill was just
forty cents aplece, This included a bot-
Ue of “wine of the country,” without
which no meal ia served,

liow do they manage it? Firat, the
soup Was “pot-au-feu,” whieh ie always
kept on band, The fish were caught in
& neighboring river; the farmeress raised
her own eggs and vegetables; the fruit
was from thelr own garden and vine-
yard, The chief expense was the chops,
coffee and suger. Labor is absurdly
cheap, and the establishment was a
close corporation, Mother and daughters
prepared the luncheon and the daugh-
ters did the waiting

We do things so differently on this
side of the water that | despair, while

WEEK...

DINNER
baked mutton eh

to soup,

peas

FRIDAY
BREAKFAST

wheaten grits, fried seallops, po-
toast, tea and coffer
LUNCHEON

© scallop, Swise chard heated with
{9 left-over), fried potatoes,
PP,

Fruit
tate biscuits.

salad thin bread and
ng cold sileed

and «@
yesterday's pud
with cream, cocoa.

DINNER
Clam chowder rolled beefsteak, scalloped
sweet potatoes, beets, apple ple with
checae, black coffee
SATURDAY
BREAKFAST.
Grapes, cereal with cream, bacon, bolled

caus, white bread, toest, tea and coffee
LUNCHEON,

Brown stew of beef (a left-over), stuffed

tatoes, beet and lettuce salad, het corn

read, siewed pears and plain cake, tea
DINNER.

Vegetable soup, stuffed and roasted berf's
heart ewes potatoes, covered with «er
cheese and browned In @ bakedish; fr
gelery relypely pudding with wine sauce,

lack coffee,

lt ee (@ n

pened In telling “how father carves the

duck.” The joints of the duck may be
placed In @ rather different fashion
from those of the chicken or turkey,

but it takes only a littl practice to
carve a duck a@ ekilfully ae any other
fowl—atwaye provided the duck t« ten-
der 1 grant all the difficulties that
May be attributed to the carving of a
tough duck, They are supreme

When a brotled chicken ts to be carved
the method te substantially (he same as
with the ronat chicken, In that the joints
are reinoved before the browet ta cut
There is lit! opportuntty for silcing
the breast, however. The best method
ie to quarter the bird and then divide
the quartere at discretion, The portion
given to each one depends upon the «
of the bird, and a quarter of an or-
dinary broller le no more than can be
managed by the postessor of « good ap-
petite

in carving » forest of beef a strong
and steady hand te demanded as well as
@ sharp knife. it le in the power of any
one with muscle to hack chunks from
the romast, but to carve It amoothiy ang
evenly *o that the cold plece may
appear in seemly form is no such trife

telling the true story, of convincing the
dwellers in our bountiful country places
that it te not better for the young pro-
ple to flock to the eclity as soon as they
are grown and leave thelr parents to
run the farm in the old, old fashion, or
to “abandon” it

Yet | verily believe that such a road
house as | have spoken of, situated as
this was, on @ route much frequented
by automobiles, could be run here with
profit, It would soon be a much-adver-
tised fovelty and consequently become
popular

But we must frat learn how to cook
and to save,

Care of Household Stores

GOOD meat preserver is a box as
A large as you can make room for in

the refrigerator, the top and bot-
tom of which are of wood, the sides of
wire netting, Stout hooks are screwed
into the inside of the top, and one of the
metted aides is hinged like a door, Meat
hung in this box will remain untainted
and sweet much longer than when hung
upon the aide of the refrigerator, If
you have a cool cellar, keep the meat
box, thus prepared, upon @ shelf in the
darkest corner, The netting excludes
insects, yet allows the air to enter, and
by drying the surface, forma an imper-
vious coating, which will keep in the

Juices.
A of sheet tron on the top of the
gas stove to fit all over; light one
burner, and the tron will soon get red
hot. In this way any number of sauce-
pans will keep boiling with only one
burner, instead of @ separate burner
for each saucepan.

An Egg Hint

si ag prevent hard-boiled eggs (for sal-

Very Economical

UBEFUL hint ts to place a plece

‘

ads, sandwiches, etc.) from turn-

ing a dark color, place them when
taken out of the boiling water in a basin
of cold water for a few minutes, This
will not only preserve their natural
color, but will render them much more
easy to shell,

WAT SMW INV
NGI, RNY NYE
IWAN i BU PEL

\
’
aw

A rosat with the ribs left in is more
easily managed than one from which
the bones have been removed, since the
plece with the bones may be turned on
the side and elices cut from it In @ line
pareliel with the ribs, When the roast
h been bound In a round or stand.
ing romet the knife t be drawn hor
fsontally across the meat #o a8 to con
tinue to out againat the grain, Thie is
to my mind, a test of « carvers ekiil
quite equal to anything he could dieplay
in the graceful diamemberment of a
duck.

In carving a steak the rule ts
to cut out the tenderloin-tf there be a
tenderioin-—and tay tt to one side A
strip of tt and a plece of the other por-
tlon of the steak may be furnished to
each guret

TO SERVE

urual

LAMB

A leg of lamb or young mutton ts
sually served with the chope attache!
and it should have been the butehers
duty to crack the bone #0 that the chops
ean be separated without diMfeulty, Ae
the “eyo” of the chop ta the tenderiotn
of the meat, the oe?
considered more of a
*, and the guests may be given thelr
eh After the are the
carver should begin to silce about a
third of the way from the shank and
cut toward the other end fome
carvers not the meat in this
way, however, but hold that if meat ts
sileed parallel with the bone it will be
Against the grain of the flesh and will,
therefore, be more tender, The objec
tion to this is that ae the fat lies near
the surface, the first pasros of the
knife remove this and give only lean to
those who are served Another
Objection te that the rtion of
the roast is usually thoroughly
cooked than that down
when this fashion of carving is follow-
ed the eater hae all overdone or all un

Pp pleces are ueunilly

delleacy than the

chops cut

alice

later
outer pe

more

lower wo that

derdone, instead of a alice that unites
both conditiona,
In carving a shoulder of veal or

mutton the fashion of handling it to

in & measure determined by the way
in whioh it le cooked If the bone
has been removed and the hollow
filled with atuffing, the meat should
be silced in such a way that each
person will have @ portion of the
dressing and a fair supply of the
meat as well This same principle
should be followed in carving any
rolled piece of meat, such as

mutton or veal. The usual plen ta to

lay the roll down and ailce through
it at right angles to ite leng ¢

SLICING HAM

When alicing ham the first cut
should not be made too near the shank,
lest the firat comers get a thin, hard
slice, The cutting should begin about
® quarter of the way from the shank
to the middle of the ham, and the
siicing will, of course, be at right
angles to the bone. In the same man-
ner, the carving of a tongue would
not be started at the tip, but far
enough up to insure a good alice,
The tip can be minced for other uses,
but it Is too dry and tough, asa rule,
to make very good eating when sliced

A word may not be anise relative
to the carving of Meh. If it te a large

piece, like baked or bolled cod or nhal-
fibut, a cut should be made down to
the bone, but not through it The

meat of the fish ts readily separated
from the bone, and a@)i that above the
central spine should be served before

attacking that which is on the um-
der aide,

In serving emaller fish, auch as
bluefish, base and the like, the first
eut should remove the head from
the body The blade of the knife
should then slit up the fish on the
underside and be drawn the whole
distance from the head to tail
just above the backbone, T t
should at the same time be pr ed
gently away from the bone, The t
may then be served in portions se-
cured by cutting transversely down
to the bone, or the upper side of the
fleh may be lifted or split away, ex-
bert the backbone, which may then

e lifted out and laid to one side
any of the transverse bones will
come away with the epine, and thus
leave the fish free from the bulk of
these drawbacks to the eaters en-
joyment,

The

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(Weaterna Asm oclated Press.) |

New Y« ° < 21 On hie first

Visit to thie country and to treat a

patient in Vhiladelhpia, why had been

under hia care infaria, De.Paul M

MRS,

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to eourt $82,411 in addition to
the 870,400.18 she haw already paid
the government, Mr Emily Crane

Dobier, a physicia:, arrived Sunday pag ign totlay obtained pore *
cu, 0 o French tine sion of the off paintings tapestrios ifi i
wig Aap 8 a a aeniee When and pricabrac *hick the govern at sacri ce pr ces!
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that he briaes a new serum for the; Chadbourne smuggled the goods by auction
cure of anemia i'r, Motier and t om Pngland
contrere Dr. Mowe, have used tb "This is tha end of the Chad-
serum for the last two yeurts on bourne Gardner sel Dietriet
more than two hundred persons, with Attorney Sims Mo than 8150, Te ee
by He qasorts : ‘This 000 has beon paid and I am of ithe
Mor a 1 nor mad opimion that the ¢ . |
pore ve rong tonic have been aatiefied and |
to the nervous system B have pain port t,, the attorney meneral
Gre means ring blood,” and it No e@tiompt te fieht tha case
is g combination of Hquid iron, give made by Mra, Chadbourne, who ex
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larvinate of | it taken into sevtetive
the system of the patient by hypo
dermic injections, which are not pain lie eidticdeeconatlh
ful and are without danget "The
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lieate that it not injuriot entora | The bditor, -—_—_———_ —o
the aystom ready to take the place Edmontoe Journal, |
of the elententa letting in the impo Mir, |

In your issue of yesterday an tiem
appears stating that the interurban
treet car line tle cutting into busi-

and nerves,”

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ECZEMA

“For three weeks | actually
had to be fed like one feeds a
baby, because my hands and
arms were 80 covered with
eczema that they had to be
bound up all the time.”

That is the experience of Miss

Violet M. MeSorley, of 75, Gore Street,
Sault Ste. Marie, She adds: “J
could not hold spoon nor fork, From
finger tips to elbows the dreaded disease
at. my finger nails came off and my
was one raw mass, The itching
and the pain were almost excruciating.
I had three months of this torture and
at one time amputation was discussed,”

“Zam-Bok alone saved my hands
and arms, I persevered with it and in
the end had my reward. To-day, lam
cured rae oy trace of the
dreaded eczema, and I ervently hope
wa ee from skin —. ~

now my case and the mirae
Zam- Buk has worked.”

Zam-Buk is without equal for ec
ting worm, ulcers, abscesses, piles, crack
hands, cold sores, chapped places, and
all skin injuries and di-eases, Droggists
and stores at $0 cenis « bom, or post
free from Zam-tuk Co., Toronto, for
same price Vou are warned against
dangerous substitutes sometimes o1

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Always Exciting.

"I visited BE. R. Thomas and found
him doing well after his motor acci-
dent,”’ suid a member of the Automo
bile Club of America, “Thomas, as
usual, railed against our bad roads,

“He said that a friend who lived it
the country had been in to sce him.

“The country is all right in the
surfimer,’ Thomas admitted, ‘but i
the fall and winter don't you find it
dull?’

"Dull? said the other, ‘No, in
deed. Why, out our way some motor
ear or other geta stuck in the muc
every night.”

No one need endure the agony o
corns with Holloway’s Corn Cure a!
hand to remove them.

Cardinal Logue, during tle visit t
Pocantico Hills, was asked how many
sermons & preacher could prepare in
a week,

Smiling, Cardinal Logue answered

“If the preacher is a man of extra-
ordinary ability he can prepare one
sermon; if a man of average ability,
two; if a blockhead, ten or twelve
—Washington Star,

$100 REWARD, $100.

The readers of thie paper will oe
pleased to learn that there in at least
one dreaded disease that science har
been able to cure in all its stages
and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now
known. to the medical fraternity
Catarrh being a constitutional disease,
requires a constitutional treatment
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken intern.
ally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of
the disease, and giving the patient
atrength by building up the constitu:
tion and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure, Send for
lint of testimonials
Address: F. J, CHENEY & Co.,
Bold by Druggistsa, Tbe, Toledo, O

An Absurd Expression,

Dr. W. J, Garnett writes to the
London Saturday Review, protesting
against the phrase, “By the akin of
my teeth,” os recently used by a
well known court official in one of
his public addresses, Dr, Garnett
points out that “these words so gen-
erally used are pot only a mis-quo-
tation, but a perversion of the
meaning conveyed in the poem by
the true text, Reference to the Book of
Joh, xix, 20, will show the protago-
nist as made to say, not ‘IT am escap-
ed by the skin of my teeth,’ but
‘with the skin,’ meaning, not ‘IT have
escaped with great difficulty,’ but
‘destitute of everything 1 possessed,
just as the teeth are destitute of
skin.’ Dr, Garnett concludes;
“The latter is appropriate and forei-
ble, the former an absurd metaphor,
and it is high time it were relegated

to the same category as ‘creating a
Frankenstein,’ and similar corrupt
texts,”

The Family
Physician

The best medicines in the
world cannot take the place of
the family physician, Consult
him early when taken ill, If
the trouble is with your
throat, bronchial tubes, or
lungs, ask him about taking
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Then
take it or not, as he says.

We publish our formusse

ers '@ banish alcoho!

jm our medicines

We urge you to
eoneult your
doe

Bilious attacks, sick-headaches, indiges-

tion, constipation, dizzy spells — these

are some of the results of an inactive

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is small, one pill at bedtime,

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COSTA RICA.

She Has Not Much Need For Her
Army, Such as it Is.

While for generations Central Amer
fea bas been the scone of frequent rev
utions and nearly all of the countries
there have been torn asunder by civil
wars, yet Costa Rica has been exempt
from (hese Internal strifes and has re-
mained peaceful and loyal to the con-
atituted authorities, She stands out to
day as 9 conspicuons, exception to her
fister republics, and practically with-
out a navy and with ao army of less
than a thousand men, the country f-
lustrates, In the habits of the people,
fn. their cordial greeting to foreigners
and foreign capital, in the confidence
shown In each other and in the jus
tice of the government, that the arts
of pence are the best paying invest.
tment any nation can make. Her army
is rarely needed, and during an Inter
view which | had with her distin.
gulahed president, Cleto Gonzales Vi-
quez, he told me that revolution at
home was out of the question, and as
Costa Rica had not had a claim from
a foreign country for fifty years there
Was not much likelihood of an army
being needed to fight a foreign foe,

Any” healthy Costa Rican between
the ages of eighteen and forty may en-
list In the army, The soldiers are
usually from the poorer class and
come from the rural districts, many of
them being of Indian descent and hav.
ing very little education. The period
of enlistment is only four months, and
at the expiration of that time they
may go to thelr homes or re-enlist,
which many of them do. While the
greater part of the time is spent at
drills, four months’ practice is hardly
sufficient to make a well disciplined
soldier, even if he is anxious to learn
and applies himself assiduously, and
the Costa Rican soldier bas both of
these qualities, The army uniform ts
blue duck, and many of the men are
without shoes—as one of them said to
me, because he preferred it through
force of habit and because he was
more comfortable in bis bare feet. He
was reared in a village where boys
tarely wore shoes, and as he grew to
manhood the habit still clang to him.—
Leslio's Weekly,

Some Names in Harvard.
Three points of the compass are here

—North, South and West—and there |

fre Easton and Eastman, but no Bast
Here, too, are England, France, tre
land and Wales in full and the dwell

ers of many other countries—viz, Dane, |

Hun, Lombard, English, French, Scot,
Dutch, Pollak, Norman, Rhinelander,
Germain, Irish, Switzer and Welch. At
& glance we discover Fayerweathber,
Cloud, Fogg and Gale, Frost and
Snow; Rivers, Eddy and Ford; Hill,
Highlands, Moors, Field and Mead.
ows; Pool, Pond, Lake, Shore, Lee,
Harbor, Haren, Whorf, Dock and Pier;

Day, Noon and Morrow, bat no Tine, |
Spring, Summer and Winter, but no!

Autumn, The only Doubt who ever
took a dogree at Harvard graduated to
1747, just forty years later than Devo
tion. Gamble, Hazard, Risk and Luck
are all on the roll, The body, too, t+
represented by Head, Arma, Hand,
Legg, Shinn, Withers and Foot. For
wear there are Brogan and Boote,
Bonnet, Belt, Capps, Collar, Cape, and
#0 on. Blight, Dole and Paine are bal-
anced by Biles and Joy, Wanton by
Virtue, Noyes by Still, Moody and
Cross by Smile and Gay, Stout by
Leen, Short by Long, Far by Nye,
Savage by Seveet, Poor by Rich.—Ilar
vard Graduates’ Magazine,

‘Snly Gelf Supporting.

It is told that Cyrus Leland, while
pushing bis candidacy for the Repub
“ican gubernatorial nomination, wrote
4 letter to a Kansas farmer asking
him for his support at the primary.

“Answer this letter, daughter,” saald
the farmer to his Oifteen-year-old girl,
of whose penmanship he was proud,
when the letter reached him, “Tell
Uncle Cy that I am too busy in the
Held to do anything for him, Tell
him I'm working early and late to get
in my crops.”

The girl waited unti! her father had
gone back to bis felds and then pen-
hed this short note, which she thought
told the story, “Papa has all he can do
to support himself without support
ing anybody élse.”
Kansas City Journal,

—_—_—_—_———————.
A General's Hobby.

General Sir Beauchamp Duff ts gen-
erally understood to be the most proba-
ble successor to Lord Kitchener in the
supreme command in India, and this
will be a Sitting reward for one who
bas a very fine military record for
hard, unremitting work. A short time
ago another officer was trying hard to
find out General Duff's recreations,
“Do you play bridge?" he asked. “Not
much,” replied the general, “Billiards
perhaps?" “Very little.” “Chess?”
“Badly.” “Any outdoor sports?” “At
rare intervals.” The interrogator then
lost his patience, “Then what on earth
do you do?” “The rarest thing possible
in the British army,” was Duft'd reply
“I work.”—London Tatler,

ABOUT MABEL,

Mabel puzzies me a lot,

Mabet's changeable, | ween,
Pretty Mabel, who is not

Any more than fair eighteen,
Mabel has such ruby lps,

Oh, her charms are very many!
Last year she had rounded hips,

This year Mabel hasn't any,

Mabel's eyes are azure biue,
Mabel's cheeks are rosy pink,

She would take your heart from you
If she only smiled, I think,

Yet a fickle maid she trips
Through the world in ways um

canny.

Last year she had rounded hips,

This year Mabel hasn't any,

Mabel's smile ts still the same,
Mabel says her heart is mine,
Beeing her you would not blame
Me for kneeling at her shrine,
But the changes Mabel slips
Over me are far too many,
Last year she had rounded hips.
This year Mabel hasn't any.
~Detroit Free Press,

Spoiled His Appetite,

“Every bit of food on this table,” |

sald the servipg lady to Lamson as he
sat down to eat at the church supper,
“was cooked by your wife.”

"Oh, I don't mind,” rejoined Lam-
son falntly, “I'm not a bit hungry,
tnyway!"--New York Tinea,

Se ee,

She mailed it.

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Absent-minded Genius.

The gbsent-mindedness of great
thinkers is a well known phenomenon.
When Morse had completed his won-
derful telegraphic system he confeas-
jed to a difleulty which appeared al-
most insurmountable, ‘As long as
poles can be used,” he said to a friend
one day, “it ia easy. But what must
ibe done when we come to a bridge?
{We cannot use poles there, and the
iwire would break, of ite own weight
without some support.”

“Well,” replied the friend, “why
|°¢ fix the wires to the bridge?”

Morse looked at him hone Seey
for a moment, and then exclaimed,
“L never thought of that. It's the
very thing.”

This instance of mental concentra-
tion on one leading idea to the ex-
clusion of all others ix almost as re-
markable as that told of Sir Isaac
| Newton, who cut a hole in his study
loor to allow his favorite cat to come
land go freely, and then cut a amaller
fone for the use of her kitten.-Dun-
ldee Advertiser

| For Frost Bites and Chilblains—
Chilblaina come from undue exposure
to slush and cold and froat-bite from
the icy winds of winter, In the treat-
ment of either there is no better pre-
paration than Dr. Thomas’ Eelectrio
| Oil, as it counteracts the inflammation
land relieves the pain. The action of
the oil ia instantaneous and ita ap-
| plication is extremely simple.
“That is old Allrock's daughter,
who married a count; her wealth tes
| countless.”
“And she wishes she wore.”

Repeat it:—"'Shiloh's Cure will
always cure my coughs and colds,”

Among birds the swan lives to be
the oldest, in extreme cases reach-
jing 300 years. The falcon has been
known to live over 162 years.

DELICATE CHILDREN
MADE WELL AND STRONG

The little ones are frail Their hold
upon life is slight. At the very first
symptoms of trouble Baby's Own Tab-
}leta should be given, This medicine
}eures colic, sour stomach, indigestion,
diarrhova, constipation, teething trou-
bles and other minor ailinents, It is
equally good for the new born babe
the well grown child Mothera

} aa
|have the guarantee of «a government
analyst that this medicine contains
no opiate or poisonous soothing stuff
Mrs, Creaaman, New Hamburg, Out.,
}sayar"T have used Baby's Own Tab-
leta for stomach trouble and conatipa-
tion with marked success, I feel that
my little ones are safe when I have a
box of Tablets in the house,."’ Bold by
medicine dealers or by mail at 2%
leenta a box from The Dr. Williams’
| Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.

Play is work that you don't have
to do,

of LaGrippe, and I have frequently
proved it to be very effective in cases
of Inflammation

| Yours *
| W. A, HUTCHINSON

He Caught It.

| I just caught the train with the young
lady in it.

In spite of the crush and crowd that
was there,

But was down on my luck the very

next minute,

I just caught the train

| young lady in it,

For a rip and a cry and a seream

| rent the air,

And the dancers all stop’
rent past repair,

I just caught pe an with the young

n it,

with the

‘l—'twas

lady

Minard’s Liniment Cures Garget in
cows,
| CRyinneaengunmenpere
Baldheaded Gentleman (having his
, boots polished in a hotel)--Confound
jit, you take an abominably long time
fabout it,
| Shoeblack—Yes, sir; it ain't done so
/ quick as when you ‘ave your ‘air cut!
__

The Name of

Black Watch

On a Tag on a Plug of
Black Chewing Tobacco

Stands for Quality,

——

eee eee

MISGUIDED GENIUS,

A Sculptor Who Devoted Himself to
Producing Fake Antiques.

One of the most astonishing ex-
atiples of genius devoting itself to
forgery was that of the italian Bas-

tian#hi. Born in 1830 in the midst of
abject poverty, he had, properly
no systematic ucation,

r) a
ether iterary or artistic. But he
had real genius.
An c™iquarian of the name of
Freppa employed him for 40 cente
per day to produce “antiques” whieh
might be sold at a good profit. So
this became Bastianini’s life work—
the production of forgeries.
One of his most celebrated worke
is the bust of Savonarola. Persuad-
ed that.here was a real fifteenth
century bust, two public spirited
gentlemen collected $2,000 and pur
chased it from Freppa to prevent ite
sale and exportation.
One eritie, Dupre, declared that he
must assign it to Michelangelo for
its force and to Robbia for the ex
quisiteness of ita treatment, regard.
ing it as a wonderfully beautiful
work of art.
Sir Frederick Leighton, the noted
English painter, having received o
hotograph, placed it, “like a sacred
mage, at the head of hia bed.” It
is eaid that the Grand Duchess Marie
of Russia and = Lippart seriously
thought of building a temple to house
this wonderful bit of art.
But, notwithstanding the plaudits
of those who “knew,” the bust was
a fake. Rumors having become cur.
rent that the piece of terra cotta war
not what it purported to be, one of
the purchasers abruptly demanded
of Bastinnini one day at his work-
shop whether he waa the creator of

the bust, And he admitted that he
was,

But thie was not the only great
“auccesa” of Paatianint. terrn

cotta bust of Benevieni, a sixteenth
century poet of Florence, wan re-
garded as a contemporary work cf
art and purchased by the Louvre for
$2,600 and inatalled in a room con-
taining work of Michelangelo him
self.

ALEXANDRA AT HOME.

Simple Everyday Life of the Queen of
England—A Great Letter Writer.
Few people ean realize the compar
ative simplicity of the everyday life
of Qoeen Alexandra, especially when
in Scotland or at Sandringham. While
in Norfolk the queen spends much of
her time in the open alr, walking, driv.
lng and doing short expeditions io ber
motor car.
After breakfast she aod one or more
of the several ladies who may be stay-
ing in the bouse make an expedition
to kennels, stables and poultry yard
to feed and interview the favorite
dogs, horses and poultry of the estab-
lishment, In the afternoon a drive is
arranged, and the evenings pass cheer.
ily with music, cards and conversation,
Dinner at Sandringham is always at
8:45.
It may be mentioned, says Town and
Country, that the royal servant? lv-
erles have a quaint old world appear.
ance and are different in cut to those
seen elsewhere, The coats are scar.
let, made in the swallowtall style, with
dark blue walsteonts edged by narrow
gold braid, The men wear no collars,
but have gold stocks, and white satin
breeches and witte «ilk stockings com.
plete thelr stately costume, All the
royal menservants are over six feet in
helght,
The queen ts an indefatigable letter
writer, She bas been koown to write
as many as forty letters in one day
with her own band, dnd Miss Koollya,
her lady in walting, often would get
through a hundred, all written under
the queen's personal supervision
Queen Alexandra's note paper is
cream colored and rather rough, with
the royal crown and address tn dark
blue and of the simplest design,
During the shooting season the queen
sends a great deal of game to her own
particular friends, and the hampers
are labeled “With the queen's compli-
ments.” At Christmas time she often
presents ber lutimates with a signed
photograph of herself to a sliver frame
Queen Alexandra is a keen photogra-
pher and has transferred some of her
photographs on to china,

CLEANING GRAY HAIR,

Much Care Necessary to Keep it in
Good Condition,

The woman who has gray Walr any
be very proud of it because of its artis
tle beanty and the fact that It Is the
height of fashion,

tier problem in these days is how to
keep it clean, Vor the frst time she
envies (ue woman who has the kind of
hair that can be washed in anything
and remain clear and'keep its color,

Every speck of dust and soll streaks
white hair with gray and yellow. The
latter is a sign that the halr needs
cleansing. it is not always easy to do
this away from home, and it is not al
ways successful when done by any one
else, It ts sald by an expert that one
of the best ways to clean it during the
summer months, when perspiration
takes away all the polish from it, Is to
wash it onee every three or four weeks
with the raw white of an egg mixed
with castile soap,

The use of bicarbonate of soda is not
good for any one with gray balr, Borax
and ammovia should also be avolded.,

One woman whose hair is inclined to
be bareb under frequent washings al-
ways keeps if clean and sweet smelling
by dusting It two or three times a week
with finely powdered orris root and
good talcum,

She rubs thts in the hair, lets it re
main for a day, then shakes it out and
brushes it ln small divisions so the
bristles can draw out every particle of
powder,

This takes the dust with it, whitens
the halr and removes every trace of
perspiration and olliness,

Women and Morals,

We hope that women who claim
their rights will use them soberly and
well, It is of tl) omen that most of the
novels that throw morality to the
winds and picture vicious living in se
ductive colors as an exercise of free-
dom and self realization are written by
women, Women are the natural custo-
dians of a high moral standard, and tf
they lower the standard they will fall
themselves and drag men down with
them,

THE CHRONICLE, STRATHCONA, ALBERTA.

SSS

To Redden

SHOULD BE AIM OF WEAK, NER.
WOus,, 91ZZY, PALE PEOPLE.
REDDEN BLOOD WITH

Dr. A.W. Chase’s
Nerve Food

Rich, rea blood.

That is what pale, nervous, weak
people need,
blood to form new cells and

tissues, to invigorate the nerves, to!
eart’s action, to give |

strengthen the
energy and vigor to the organs of the

ne elements from which ature
forms rich, red blood are found in
conden.ed and ensily assimilated

form in Dr. A. W. Chase's Nerve Food | the same

Red
d
rh
be

and because of its wonder‘ul blood.
building qualities this great restora.
tive has become world-famous,

There is no guesswork, no experi-

enting with this treatment. Every
dove is bound to do you a certain
amount of good,

Miss Cynthia Hutehinson, Hance
ville, B. C., writes: “I feel it my duty
to tell what a great friend Dr. Chase’s
Nerve Food has been to me, I would
have written sooner but wanted to

sure I wae thoroughly cured. Be-

fore using this medicine my nervous
oem was 80 completely run down

at my friends, as well as myself,
thought I could never get better. All
medicines failed to help me.

“A trial of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food
benefited me, and I used altogether
seven boxes. At the end of a month
people ccarcely knew me, I had im-
proved so much. The blood was en
riched, color improved, new flesh add.
ed, and i got strong and well, Several
of my friends have profited by my
experience and received great benefit
from this treatment.”

The portrait and signature of A.W
Chase, M.D., the famous Receipt Book
author, are on every box of the genu
ine. 60 cents at all dealers or Edman
son, Bates & Co., Toronto,

STAGE SCENERY.
Modern Gettings Tax the Ingenuity of
the Builders.

The big acente artiata do little actuad
painting beyond making the model,
unless they have a panoramle effect.
That they do themmelves, standing on
the palnt bridge, many feet from the
floor, while the canvas te raised ofr
lowered The panoramic effects are
hard to bandle, One difficulty t« to
avold Guttering when a draft aweepa
across the stage Mountains that
tremble basily are not conducive to
iNusion,

With the elaborate productions of
late yours the Importance of the bulld
er of scenery has Increased, aaya Ev
erybody's Magazine, Formerly, when
the seenery consisted merely of can
vas stretched orer a wooden franie, It
Was simple enough, But the struggle
for reallam and sensational effecta tas
developed dificult “problema for the
bullder of stage asconery to solve
very plece of scenery must be made
#0 that It can be folded toto sirips five
feet nine inches wide, because the
doors of the baggage care in which tt
is transported are only «ix feet in
breadth. Also every plece muat be
light and #0 constructed that one
scone can be removed and another
put in place within ten minutes it
may take thirty hours of continuous
work to ret the scenery “set up.” te
use a technical expremton, after tt
brought (nto the theater, After that
the work of changing a scene ls com
paratively eary

O’ten what appear to be the moat
trivial occurrences of life prove to be
the most momentous. Many are dis
posed to regard a cold as a alight
thing, deserveing of little considera
tion, and this neglect often results in
the most serious ailments entailing
yeara of suffering. Drive out colds
and coughs with Bickle’s Anti-Con
sumptive Syrup, the recognized rem
edy for all affections of the throat
and lungs

it Was Badly Worded.

“A most peculiar effect was pro
duced by an announcement in the ad
vertisements of a county fair to be
held in my state,"’ seye Congressman
Champ Clark. “Among other things
the announcement sald that ‘attractive
features of this great fair will be
highly amusing donkey races and pig
races,’ Then, to the amazement of
the judicious, this note was added .
‘Competition in these two contests
will be open to citizens of the county
only,’ "Cleveland Leader,

Repeat
it: —“Shiloh’s Cure will always
cure my coughs and colds,”

One day the office boy went to the
editor of the Boaring Eagle and said

“There's a tramp at the door, and
he says he has had nothing to eat
for six days,”

"Fetch him in,” said the editor, “If
we can find out how he does it we can
run this paper for another week,"

Minard's Liniment Cures Diphtheria.
THE NIGHT,

A tremor, a quiver,
Through her ran
As over the river
The dawn began,
Bhe drew her veil
Over her eyes,
And her lace grew pale,
As she watched the sun rise,
Bhe faded, turned
to a ghost, was gone,
As the morning burned
And the day came on,
With veiled, sad eye,
And face still wan,
Bhe waited nigh
When the dusk began,
With her tears of bliss
The earth was wet,
And soothed with her kiss
When the sun was set,
And with stately pride
She sat on her throne
Of her empire wide
When the day had gone;
And her robes she spread
With their sable hem
And crowned her head
With her diadem,
And the mute Earth saw
That a queen was she,
And gazed with awe
On her majesty.
W, M. MeKeracher,

the Blood

A LAUNDRY HINT.

Turpentine Prevents Silk Stockings
From Fading.

There was once a tithe when black
| silk stockings were considered fashion-
; ible with every toflet, but noW it has
become the fashion among well dress-
ed women to have everything match,
and from the crown of the head to the
tip of the toe must be a blending of
one color, which does not permit of the
hard contrast of a black shoe and
stocking against a light gown.

The only trouble with silk stockings
is the washing of them. If the laun-
dress is not an expert in that line a
delicate and expensive pair can be
easily ruined.

The best way fs to fill a basin with
Warm water and soapsuds, Let the
stockings soak a few minutes, then rub
gently and rinse again with water of
temperature. If the stock-
ings are white a little bluing should
be put In the water both times, In
that way you will avold having them
turn that pecullar shade of yellow that
all silk is sure to do.

Using a few drops of turpentine In
the water with the soap will prevent
the most delicate shades, such as pink
green and blue, from fading.

Tan stockings ore the most dificult
of all to manage. They will get a
greenish tinge to them that Is the
despair of the owner, for it is impos
sible to keep them from running, no
matter what care ts taken, and the
water In which they are washed ts
sure to be discolored.

The best way is to wash a new pair
first. Though the stockings may fade
very little, the water will be a dark
brown. Then take an old pair and let
them soak in the water, In that way
dyeing the old ones the original color.

No fine stockings should ever be
froned. After washing they should be
shaken out and hung over a towel
rack or the back of a chalr, The hot
fron removes the gloss and makes the
stockings look as if they were cotton,
not allk.

AS TO OBEYING.

That Is the “Last Straw,” According to
Up to Date Bride

Just one thing the average fall bride
Wishes to know is this; Why should
she promise to obey when nelther the
brides of the Loman vor Greek com
munions, Jewish brides and Quaker
brides, are compelled to make this old
fashioned promise?

And the worst part of it is the un
truth of it. Women are no longer con
sclenceloss creatures who muat be com
manded to be good and laden with
other instructions whenever their other
halves depart. Away back tn the past
when they were uneducated burden
bearers and never held converse with
guests this was doubtiessly a whe
clause, This question of the pledge of
‘ebedience which is extracted from
brides who profess certain forma of
feligion is continually coming under
discussion, and in these days, when the
equality of the sexes ts demanded
and when many clergy as well as lay-
men admit that it should be
nized, it seems inconsistent that this
vow should be demanded of women.

While it is thought nothing short of
shocking that daughters should rebel
at this Kea of placing themselves tn
subjection to thelr husbands, many are
not averse to giving them tn marriage
to men already possegaed of wives
from whom they have been divorced,
and, while many consider it a fearful
sign of the times and an indication of
coming disaster that it should even be
Proposed that thie vow of obedience
should be deleted from the marriage
service, yet few would be prepared to
gay that because women of other re-
ligious views do not make this vow
they are therefore bringing thelr sex
to naught and uprooting all the tradi.
tlons of the race,

AN AFTER DINNER THOUGHT,

Oh, my, signor, how seeck 1 feel
From som'theeng I have ate!

I had wan oyster een my meal
Dat wasea catch’ too late!

Oh, my, dat soocha leetia theeng
Could mak’ so bigga change!
Dees morna | could dar 4
But now | feel so «
I ne can ‘tand to bees
Dut seeta theenkin’ bh
An’ wat I theenk you
Het ees #0 vera queer

I theenk upon dat greata man
Dat eos da first to com’

Yor findin’ deesa granda lan'—
Creestofore Colomb',

Kes dagoman like me, you know—
Eh? Yes, but wait, signor,

I tal you som'theeng, mebbe eo,
You nevva hear bayfore.

I theenk upon Colombo w'en
Hie beg hees queen dat she

Would justa geeve heem sheeps an’ met
Yor help heem cross da sea,

But could no gat da theengs he need,
Hiow mooch he coax an’ beg,

Onteel she see da theeng he deed
Weeth justa leetla ese

Aha, my frand, so you have read
An’ know da story toot

He stan’ dat egg upon eects head,
Like no wan else could do,

An’ #0 da queen she clap her han's
An’ ta! Colombe den;

“Now you ean go for find dose lan's
I geeve you sheeps an’ men.”

You know w'at happen after dat,
Kes notheeng more to say,

But here ees queera thought I gat
Benside my head today;

Bu'pose-—I ask you now—su'pose
Dat ese he bust was had!

You theenk da queen would hold her

nose

An’ emila just as glad?

You theenk she gona tal Colomb’
Bhe geeve heem sheeps an’ sooch

An’ evratheeng he need to com’?
You bat my life, not mooch!

I tal you eef dat exe was bad
As deesa taste I gat

Colombe mebbe woulda had
Booch trobla after dat

Dees lan’ where now we are so glad

Would no be founda yat,
A. Daly in Catholle Standard’ and

Times,

woeng.

vve guess,

Y

Ready Oourage. -

The Duchesse de Berry, whose bus
band was the sou of Charles X, of
France, ts described in the “Memotra
of the Cowtesse de Bolgne” as one of
(he most courugeous characters the
writer ever knew,

Oue day, when she was driving with
her husband, the Due de Berry, the
horses took fright and ran away, The
duchesse bad continued the conversa-
tion wiihout changing the tone of her
volce, and at last ber busband ex-
claimed;

“Why, Caroline, do you not sce what
has happened?"

“Yes, | see; but as I cannot stop the
horses It ts uscless to trouble aboui
them,”

The carriage was upset, but oo one
Was burt

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the terrible operations it necessitates
eause a shudder of apprehension
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thia is true. Once let the “weaker”
sex face @ crisie—I care not what the
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And this courage extends even to
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ten, but I do not remember to have
known or heard ‘of a woman doing
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Momorandum of Agreement made |
thia first day of Dengmhber, A.D. 1908, |
between

The City of Strathcona, hereinafter
called the “Gorporation,” of the firet |
part; and

Cyrus 8, Baton, of the City of Cleve-
in the State of Ohio, one of the Unit
ed States of Amerika, contractor, here-
inafter called the “Contragtor,” of the
second part;

Whereas the Contractor proposes to
undertake the manufacture of artifi-
clal gas in the City of Strathcona
aforesald, and has applied to the said
Corporation for the privilege of con-
structing such works within the said
City as may be required for the pur-
pose of manufacturing and distribut-
ing the same:

Now it is agreed as follows’

1. The Contractor may, upon the
terms and conditions herein set forth,
erect and establish within, or adja
cent to, the City of Strathcona, and
maintain and operate during a period

of twenty years next ensuing after the
date of this Agreement, a plant for
the manufacture and distribution of
artificial gas, constructed after the
latest and most approved methods,
and of sufficient size and capacity to
furnish to the said Corporation, as it

consumer and the contractor; the con-;mine if the Council of the elty ahall
tracor to boar all expense tnourred | by resolution so declare; provided,
hould the teat show the moter to | however, that such option or power

have been registering a greater |Shall not be exercised for failure to j able dispatch to refill the trench or

| 1 n wit '
amount of gas than that actually con }complete the sald construction within

sumed, and the consumer to pay all | the time limited if the contractor shall |ed in the next succeeding clause

expenses incurred should the test j|hav@ installed the wo miles of mains

show the meter to be correct, with- , hereinbefore provided tor and has ex

in the meaning of the Itw. pended on a gas manufacturing plant

(e) PROVIDED FURTHER that| intended for the supply of gas for the
in the event of one gas manufacturing | City of Strathcona, the sum of mt
}least ten thousand dollars, and the
causes of such failure are beyond the
eontrol of the said contractor and are
total amount consumed by both munt-jremedied within a reasonable time,
cpalities shall be taken as the basis|the onus of proof to be in every case
of fixing such maximum price or) upon the contractor.
prices, 8. After the sald Ist day of Decem
(f) Provided also that at no time] ber, 1909, be sald contractor shall op
shall consumers in Srathcona be) erate the said plant continuously until
charged a greater price for artificial) the expiration of this agreement, and
gas than the prices charged to con-jin the event of the contractor allow
sumers in Edmonton or Strathcona by | ing the said plant to become idle for
whomsoever supplied
6. In order to estimate the jany successive periods aggregating six
amount of gas sold, the sald contract | (6) months, within a period of twely

plant supplying both of the municipal

ities of Strathcona and Kdmonton, the

tu period of three (3) months, or for

the corporation on the 15th day of Jan-| for such pertod or periods, then tn
wary of each and every year, showing any such case the privileges hereby
the amount of gas sold in both the mu. | granted to the contractor shall, there
nicipalities of Strathcona and Edmon: | upon, at the option of the corporation
ton during the preceding year, which | (to be exercised by resolution of tt

report shall be verified by the sworn! City Council, cease and determine

statement of two officers of the con. | provided that such option shall not
tractor; Provided, however, that the | pe exercised where the causes of such
| books of accounts, or records of sale, | idleness or failure to supply gas are
lof the sald contractor, shall be open | beyond the control of the contractor,

now is, or may hereafter be extended,|/to the inspection of the auditors or land that the same are remedied with

and to any of its citizens, an adequate
supply of artificial gas of standard
quality; and furnish and sell the

same to the Corporation and any of |

ite citizens as hereinafter provided,

accountants of the said corporation |in a reasonable time, the onus of proof
at any time for verification of such |of which shall In every case be upon
report. jthe contractor; and provided further

6. The corporation may at, or &¢ |that the council of the corporatio;

who may desire to be supplied with | sald period of twenty (20) years, pur |the said privileges either uncondition
the same; and, for the purposes afore | chase the plant of the contractor and | ally or upon such terme and conditions

valid, from time to time, lay, take up,|all property used in connection there jug may to such council seet

alter, renew and repair mains, con

duits and pipes of sufficient capacity, | corporation and its inhabitants with |

laying the same along or under such
or such parts of any public thorough
fare as may be approved by the Coun
cll of the City, and in such positions
relative to curb and bullding lines,
and at such depths as may be directed
by the City Engineer; provided that,
at the discretion of the Contractor,
any portion of the said plant may be
constructed without the sald City,

2. The Contractor shall indemnify

and save harmless the Corporation |artificial gas

from all loss, costs, damages and ex
penses which may arise or be Incur
red by the Corporation by reason of
the exerclae by the contractor of any
of the privileges hereby granted,
whether or not such privileges are at
he time such loss, costs, damages or ex-
penses arose or were incurred, being
exercised pursuant to the directions,
under the supervision or with the ap

expedi
with for the purpose of supplying the | ont,

9. The contractor shall furnish gas
ras as aforesaid, which may be situate lin such quantities as may be required

south of the Saskatchewan river, and jig every person, firm or corporation |

shall pay therefore at a valuation to| who may apply for the same, and
be determined by arbitration, Sul | when the buildings to be supplied are
ject to the provisions hereinafter con jeituate on land tying along the line
tained; provided, however, that if the |of any supply pipe of the contractor
contractor shall have in operation althe contractor sball forthwith carry
natural gas plant sufficient to supply ste mains up to t!

all aemands of the city, the clty MAY |property of ere
purchase the same without purcha® | such appliiant
ing any plant for the manufacture Of | sary connyctior

ant “0 in

when the buildings to be supplied are
(a) The corporation, through Msi not so situate, the contractor hall
council shall give the contracto | con truct such mains or pipes as arr

ltwelve months’ written notice of It8 | necessary to give such suppl if

intention to purchase the #ald pro-| reasonable return upon the outlay of

perty, which notice shall set a date|iphe contractor in constructing such
for such, proposed purchase inains or pipes is reasonably assured
(b) The price of the sald purchase |io the contractor, and in case of
rhall be determined by a bonrd of} dimerence of opinion between the cor
three arbitrators, one of whom shall/ tractor ard the inhabitants tn respect
be selected by the contractor, one by |i9 such assurance, the deciston of th

proval of the Engineer of the Corpor-|the council of the sald corporation munteipal council shall be final, sub

ation of the Counell

and the third by the two thua rclect ject, however, to appeal as here inafler |
3. Provided that the contractor shall|ed, The arbitrators thus selected

provided

be Hable only if the corporation gives | shall proceed to takyw an inventory 10, It in further provided that tn
to the contractor notice ef any claim |and make an appralzement of all thy | ihe event of the discovery of natural

for which it is deemed liable at

property of the sald contractor, Of | gas within tbe Hmitse of the City of

least five before the expiration of | which notice do purchase has been glv | strathcona, or within such distance

the time limited for appearance, and|en as herein provided, pere nal and

o: the sald lHmits as to render the

it such notice is given the onus of/real, but no compensation esball be al |aame of commercial value, the con

showing that the contractor Is not
liable shall, as between the corpo:

stion and the contractor, rest with| bearing thereon, and the price or va 1}.

the contractor

jowed the contractor for good will Of |tractor shall have the right to bore
franchise, and to take all evidence | for, supply and distribute natural gas
In the event of the contractor
lue so found shall be the price at | exercising the privileges contained In

4. In consideration of the rightsand| which such property shall be pur | the last precoding clause, all the pro

privileges herein granted the contrac.

tor sball furnish gas of standard com

mercial quality, as compared tothe gasland the conduct of such arbitration
furnished in cities throughout the/ehall be under and by virtue of the

Dominion of Canada, for dluminating
heating, and power
shall not charge for the same in ex
cess of the following prices, to wit

(a) A maximum price of $1.80 per
1,000 feet with a discount of 10 per
cent, to any and all consumers, re

gardiess of quantity used, up to 2,500 (c) The terma of such purchas
cuble feet per calendar month; and | shall be cash; provided, however, that
any consumer who uses In excess | before any money is pald on the sald |

of 2,500 cuble feet, and not exceeding
£,000 cuble feet In any one calendar

month, a discount of 15 per cent. shall |:ances, if any there be, outstanding

be allowed from the maximum pri
for all gas consumed during that ca
lendar month; and to any consume:
who uses in excess of 6,000 cuble fee
in any one calendar month, a dis

chased by the sald corporation, and | yisions of this agreement shall appl)
he appointment of such arbitrators | io the contractor's operations for th

sald purpose, with the exception of
those with regard to prices
Jawa for the time being In foree tn i”. If the contractor availa himself

purposes, andithe Province of Alberta governing (helo the privileges noreby granted, re

conduct of arbitrators, Provided fur \ferring to natural gas, he shall supply
ther that such arbitration proceedings | (ractor to make the t sary OXCAVA
shall be proceded with forthwith up |) atural gas within the elty limite at
on the giving of the notice provided |, price not greater (han that charged
for In sub-section (a) of this section.|p, the contractor, or by any other

ompany or person tn the cites ot

Strathcona or Edmonton, and = shall
upply the same to the corporation for
proposed purchase to the sald Con | municipal warerworks, electric Heht
tractor, all bonds or other encuial-| plants and other nuntelpal purposes
at a price of not more than 40 cent
against the said property, shall be)per one thousand (1,000) cuble fee
pald and cancelled, and the amountlo¢ gas having a heat value of one
no paid in cancellation of the said |ihousand (1,000) Lrtieh thermal unite
bonds shall be considered a part Of | per euble foot

In case the gas found
the purchase value or price so named |has a heat value leas than one thous

count of 20 per cent, shall be allowed | by the said Board of Arbitrators, and /and (1,000) Britleh thermal unite pe
from the maximum price for all gas} shall be deducted from the sald pur-|eubic foot, the price ts to vary a

consumed during that month, and

all such discounts shall apply to

whatever maximum rates may be fix
od as hereinafter provided.

(b) Provided that standard meters | graph 6 hereof, and abandon all pro- | eye

be supplied free of charge, but that
a minimum charge of 50 cents per ca
lendar month can be made to any
consumer where service is rendered
and the gas consumed does no
amount to 50 cents per calendar

month at the foregoing rates, and

the foregoing discounts shall only be

within fifteen days from the date of
ioalling or the delivery of the bill for
the same,

(ec) PROVIDED FURTHER that
when the total amount of the gas sold
shall exceed 60,000,000 cuble feet per
annum, the maximum price shall no
exceed $1.75 per 1,000 cuble feet;
when the total amount of gas sold
shall exceed 75,000,000 cubic feet per
annum, the maximum price shall not
exceed $1.70 per 1,009 cuble feet
when the total amount of gas sold

shall exceed 90,000,000 cuble feet per |

ennum, the maximum price shall no
exceed $1.65 per 1,000 cuble feet

(d) Should any consumer belleve him
himself unjuslly charged for gas con
sumed by the inaccuracy of the regis
tration of the meter supplied by the
contractor, such consumer may re
quest and demand that the contractor
shall test said meter.

Should the consumer be dissatisfied
with the test made by the contractor,
the contractor will, if the consumer
#o desires, and in the absence of any
competent authority established
by either the city or the province of
Alberta, send the meter to the nea:
est point at which an official test can
he made, and the certificate of such

test shall be final as between ithehereby granted shal) cease and deter

chase price so agreed upon, cordingly. And after the requirements

(d) Provided that the corporation |of the corporation are saliafied, shall,
niay at any stage, by notice in writ
ing, withdraw any notice under Para

subfect to the conditions herein ex

prowsed, eupp!, such gas to such of
inhabitants of the corporation as
ceedings taken, and may upon giving {demand the same for thelr private and
it new notice as required by sald para! individual use at a price of not more
graph 6 hereof, recommence like pro-|ihan fortydive (45) cents per one
ceedings with the same right of aban jthousand (1,000) eubli fen of gas
donment, but upon such abandonment jbaving a heat value of one thousand
the corporation shall indemnify the | gritish thermal unite per enble foot
contractor for all coats to which he lin case the gas found has @ heat valu

thermal units per cuble foot, the price
Provided, however, that upon the | ig to vary accerdingly

abandonment of any notice given, no! 1%, Before any of the works hereby

subsequent notice shail be given for |suthorized are undertaken or com

a further period of five years, and! meneced by the contractor, plans an

in the meantime all the powers and] profiles showing the character and ex

privileges herein granted to the con ltent thereof shali be furnished to the

and effect, iproved by him
(e) Provided further that nothine } (a) If the said works are not car

from laying mains or making neces | profiles approved by the engineer of

sary improvements pending the com lithe corporation, the sald engineer of
j

pletion of the purchase

the corporation shall have power to
(ff Provided that the corporation | forbid the continuance of such work
and the contractor may, if they think | and upon such prohibition the contrac
fit, agree as to the amount to be puld | tor «shall forthwith cease’ the anne
for the plant or any part thereof jand shall, if so directed by the sald
| 7. The Contractor shall begin work | engineer, place the streets in as good
on the construction of the plant or ja condition and state of repair ay ex
works authorized under this agree-|isted before the commencement of
ment within 7 months from the date | such works, and if he does pot, the
of the execution of this agreement lcorporation may replace the same and
jand shall, not later than the first day|charge the expense thereof to the
}of December, 1909, be in a positien to | contractor.
supply gas through at least two milea| (b) Provided, however, that at
of mains, no part of which shall be|gime ehall more than one thousar
counted if upon the river Mats of the] feet of any street be open, in a co
Saskatchewan river or north of Sas | tinuous trench, unlese with the dl

j}katchewan avenue; provided that un-| consent of the council: the contra

jloss the sald construction is so com © provide suitable and safe wage: |
menced, or unless so completed, this | crossings at the intersecting streets, |

franchise and all rights and privileges’ and to guard at night with barricades
and lights, all open trenches; provid,

| Should the coutractor fail to refill any
'
lopening made by him, or fall to do

jother opening in the manner praserib- |
;
so with reasonalje dispatch, the city |§
|

or shall cause a report to be made to} (12) months, or failing to supply gas

ed further, that the contracto

upon the completion of his pipe line
or other work, proceed with reason

. ao! ’

engineer may order the work to be
cone or completed at the cost of the
contractor; stiibject to appeal! as here
jinafter provided,

i4. Upon the completion of as |
works hereby authorized, the contrac
tor shall restore the streets upon |
which such works bave been carriod |
out to as good a condition and stake
of repair as existod before the com |
mencement thereof, and to the entire
atisfaction of the city engineer. If!
he contractor docs not so rewtore the
jstreets the corporation niay do 60 and
jinay charge the expense
the contractor,

15. Nothing heretti contained shall
e construed so as to pre

thereof to}

t ent the cor

poration from granting privileges, the
ime as or similar to any of the privi
|'eges herein granted to any person ot
persons, firm or corporation at any
}time the corporation may so desire,
16. In acting under this agreement
}the engineer and the council shall be
tound to act reasonably, bona-fide,

jand not arbitrarily, In the event of

| any time after, the expiration of the |may at any time by resolution revive }

'
i Hine of thy

has been put in or about the arbitra: | joss than one thousand (1,000) Dritleb |
allowed when the bill for gas is pald | con,

tractor shall continue in full force }engineer of the corporation and ap |

| j
herein shall prevent the contractor! ried out according to the plans and

the-contractor being of the opinion
that the engineer or the council has
not acted as hereby required, the
question shall be determined by a
| judge of the Supreme Court of Alber
4, oh application made by notice of
| tnotion, and the coat of the reference

shall be in the discretion of the judg

| Until the Judge determines the ques
tion, the direction of the engineer or
| the Council shall be obeyed

17. The contractor shall forfeit and
ay to the corporation as liquidated
damages and not ae penajiies for the
following breaches of or defaults ur

der this agreement the
in respectively specified;

| (a) For default in carrying thelr
upply pipe to the boundary line of
}the street under clause 9, #0 as to

amounts here

j permit connections to supply the own
or occupant of any bullding who

| may become entitied to a supply un
ler the provisions of ti agroemen
| «rf one month after he has become

ntitied as aforesaid, the sum of Two
}'2) Dollars for every é during
'which such default continu after thy

ald pe d. of one (1) month, provid

d that the seeson is such that it be
asonably practicable for the com
jona.

(b) Por default ta being in a pest
tion to supply gas before the let day
of December, 1900, as provided for in
section 7 hereof, the sum of five thou

sond dollars, and, for the better secur
ing of the payment of the #al¢ sum
ol five thousand dollars, the contrac
ltor shall, within thirty days after the
igning of this agreement, deposit
with the corporation @ bond approved
ot by the elty council, conditioned fos
the prompt payment of the sald sum
of five thousand dollars, should the
ame become due and payable under
the terms hereof; and until the ap
proval of such bond tile agreemen
hall not be considered as In force,
Provided that the penaltics herein
mentioned shall not exclude the right

of the corporation or the contractor
to bring action or ations for specific!
performance under the terme of thie |
to avall themselves of

ary other remedy by way of damage
|

agreement, oF

w otherwise, that they may have, and
it te understood that an action fo
specific performance of any of Ut
terms of this agreement may bi
yrought by the sald corporation of
ald contractor

18. Nothing herein contained shall
| elieve the contractor from the obli
‘gation to observe any bydaw of th
corporation which may now or shall
hereafter be in force In the City of
Strathcona and not inconsistent here
vith

19. It is hereby expressly unde,
tood and agreed between the partie
lhercto that all covenants, provinoes

powers, agreements, privileges and Il |
xerein contained shall be bind
Hing, upon, enure to the benefit of, and
may be exerelsed by the respective

lexecutors, administrators, successors
and assigns of the parties hereto
Executed by the parties heretq at
the Clty of Strathcona, in the Prov
ince of Alberta, the day and year first
labove written ’
In the presence of

Wave iif

P-BURNS& CO

Dea! rs in

Fresh and Cured Meat
Of all Kinds |

FISH AND GAME

| IN SEASON

ee Ca te ne an en

Highest Market Prices paid tor
FIRST-CLASS

DRESSED POULTRY

of all descriptions,

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HASTRAY

On the premises ol

W. M. Gaulter, Sandy Lake, |:

one roan heifer, harned, no |
brand visible: one red and white
ecifer, hornesl, no visible
brand, both about three years
old, Owner please prove prop

erly, pay expenses and remove.

lerry

and we want

ers fo’ their gen

MALON

TREE BRG RAG NAGE RARER
The Staff of

| Malone’s Store

Wishes everyone a

Christmas

thank our custom:

ous patronage dur: -
ing the past year.

AAAS

to

er

E’S

99 OS9OO0O004900460000000 90S Ooe

XMAS PRESENTS

at the

Corner Drug Store

a >

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Military Brushes in Ebony, $1.50 to $3.75 pair
Shaving Sets, ° ‘ 2.50 to E 00
Manicure Sets, Ebony, . 2,00 to 4.00
Comb, Brush and Mirror Sets in
¢ Ebony and Oxidised Silver, 4 00 to 12.co
Brush and Comb Sets in Oxidised
Silver and Ebony, . 2.50 to 4.25
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Faucy Empty Boxes for Manicure
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TAX NOTICE,

WHY PAY RENT?

ae

All land in arrears for taxes will be
old according to the provisions of
the charter governing same unless the
‘uxes are paid before Janaary 1st.

J, D, POSTER, Collector,

Five Room House, lathde and plas

tered, cement foundation, built warm
and comfortable, Price, $1,850. Terms
Poo apathy > mew: $100 cash, balance $15 per month,
GIRL WANTED--For Kichen Work,
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